Publications and Lectures by Steven N. Peskind

Publications:   

• Assistant Editor: American Bar Association Family Law Litigation Newsletter 1998-1999;
• Author: Investigation and Discovery Child Custody Litigation Illinois Institute of Legal Education (1998, Supplement 2000, 2004, 2006 Edition) and Jurisdiction for Original Custody and Removal of Child from the State of Illinois (2006 Edition);
  
• Author: Family law  Starting points: The Fundamentals of 11 practice Areas (Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education 1994, 2000, 2004);
  
• Author: Effective Presentation of a Motion for Temporary Support (ABA Family Law Litigation Newsletter, Spring 1999);
  
• Quoted: Daily Herald March 12, 2001 article Family Law’s Nasty Nuclear Bomb by David Kazak;
  
• Author:  Eckert Revisited:The Supreme Court's Review of Collingbourne and the Second District Appellate Court's application of the law of removal. Illinois State Bar Association Family Law Newsletter, February, 2003
  
• Author: Who’s Your Daddy?:  An Analysis of Illinois’ Law of Parentage and the Meaning of Parenthood Loyola University Chicago Law Journal Vol. 35  No. 3 Spring 2004
  
• Author:  “Mother Knows Best” Judicial Deference and the Child’s Best Interests  DuPage County Bar Journal January 2004
  
• Author:  Regulating non-traditional childbirth-the Illinois Gestational Surrogacy Act Illinois State Bar Family Law Journal Vol. 48, No. 2, January 2005
  
• Author: Determining the Undeterminable:  The Best Interest of the Child Standard as an Imperfect but Necessary Guidepost to Determine Child Custody. Northern Illinois University Law Review, summer 2005. 
  
• Author:  The pendulum has swung:  The upside-down world of the law of maintenance in Illinois, ISBA Family Law Section Counsel, winter 2005.
• Co-Author: Of the House Bill ultimately adopted as the Illinois Gestational Surrogacy Act (2005-2006). 

Lectures:        

• Speaker:  Hot Tips regarding practical aspects of the practice at the Annual Meeting of the ABA on July 31, 2009 in Chicago.
• Speaker:  Law Practice Management during Troubled Financial Times (2008 David Peskind Memorial Family Law Seminar)
• Speaker:   Maintenance  -- How Much and How Long?  (Gitlin on Divorce Family Law CLE.  Divorce basics presented at an expert level by experts, April 2008)
• Speaker:  10 Things a Divorce Lawyer Needs to Know about Taxation  --  A Primer.  (2007 David Peskind Memorial Family Law Seminar)
• Speaker:  Trends in Maintenance Awards 2000 – 2005 (Kane County Bar Association 2005);
  
• Speaker: Current Issues in Child Custody Law (Northern Illinois University Law Review Symposium);
  
• Speaker: The Illinois Gestational Surrogacy Act (Illinois State Bar Association 2004);
  
• Speaker: Illinois statutory Basis of Parentage (Kane County Bar Association 2004);
  
• Speaker: The implications of In re Marriage of Collingbourne of child removal cases in Illinois (Kane County Bar Association 2003);
  
• Moderator: “Dividing Retirement Plans in Divorce” (Kane County Bar Association 2002);
  
• Moderator: Calculation of Child Support and Maintenance in Family Law Cases  (Kane County Bar Association 2001);
  
• Speaker: Speech to new admittees to Illinois Bar at swearing in ceremony, Elgin, Illinois (May 1999);
  
• Speaker: Discoverability of Mental Health Records  (Kane County Bar Association (1998);
  
• Speaker: Extraordinary Family Law Remedies (Kane county Bar Association (1992);
  
• Speaker: Hearsay in family law cases (Kane County Bar Association 1993);
  
• Speaker: Contempt Proceedings  (Kane county Bar Association 1994);
  
• Presenter:  KIDS program (Kane County Family Court) lectures on divorce and its impact on children;
  
• People’s law School  (1990, 1992)