| Drafter of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act passed by the Illinois General Assembly and signed by then Governor James R. Thompson, which became law on October 1, 1977. (Handled appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court in Kujawinski v. Kujawinski, 71 Ill.2d 563, 376 N.E.2d 1382, 17 Ill.Dec. 801 (Ill. 1978) in which the constitutionality of the key provisions of the Act was adjudicated.)
Appointed by West Publishing Company to be the co-author with Albert E. Jenner, Jr., of the Historical and Practice Notes to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act and to the Husband and Wife Act in the Smith-Hurd Illinois Annotated Statutes, 1980 to 1988. These Historical and Practice Notes have been relied upon and cited by Illinois courts of review hundreds of times in construing that law.
Authored "Trying a Contested Divorce Case" chapter in Illinois Family Law Handbook, 1967 (Revised, 1972, 1973 and 1975) for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
Authored "Separate Maintenance" chapter in Illinois Family Law Handbook, 1969 (Revised, 1973 and 1976) for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
Authored "Pitfalls of Using National Service Life Insurance in Divorce Settlements," American Bar Association Law Notes, January, 1971.
Authored article entitled "Husband's Liability for Support for Wife and Child With Their Own Property" published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on September 28, 1973.
Authored article entitled "Liability of Natural Father for Support Following Adoption" published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on November 15, 1973.
Authored article entitled "Effective Use of Life Insurance in Divorce Property Settlements" published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on June 9, 1974.
Authored "An Introduction to the New Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act," Illinois Bar Journal, November, 1977.
Authored "Property Rights and Maintenance" chapter in Illinois Family Law Handbook, 1978 and 1981 for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
Authored "Property Considerations Upon Dissolution of Marriage" chapter for Illinois Family Law Handbook with revisions from 1978 to date for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
Authored "Division of Assets" chapter in Drafting Marital Separation Agreements Handbook for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1981 and 1982.
Authored article entitled "Personal Goodwill v. Enterprise Goodwill" in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin dealing with an analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court opinion in In Re Marriage of Talty, June 29, 1995.
Authored article entitled "New Interrogatories Streamline Divorce Cases," in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin dealing with the Supreme Court Standard Matrimonial Interrogatories, May 16, 1996.
Authored section regarding the effective use of net worth statements in dissolution of marriage cases in the book entitled 101+ Practical Solutions for the Family Lawyer for the American Bar Association Family Law Section, Summer, 1996.
Authored Handbook on "New Attorney's Fee Statute in Dissolution of Marriage Cases" for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education in May, 1997.
Authored 279 page "Divorce Advocacy School: Developing Powerful Discovery Skills", a course book for a seminar presented by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education in 2001. | 
