A local attorney should always be consulted when legal advice is needed. She didn't show up at court, so I was granted sole custody but no child support since she was unemployed. For about two years, she didn't ask for any visitation whatsoever. Now that I'm remarried, she wants everything to do with her firstborn children. The problem is that her new husband doesn't want her to work, therefore we are having trouble getting any type of support from her.
Illinois laws are still very gender biased.