IN RE MARRIAGE OF JOHNSON

No. 1-03-2359.

812 N.E.2d 661 (2004)

351 Ill.App.3d 88

285 Ill.Dec. 841

In re The Marriage of Mary Beth JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. Vernon Johnson, Respondent Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd., Appellant, v. Michael A. Weiman and David J. Wessel, Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Feinstein, Paul L. Feinstein, Ltd., Chicago; and Randy K. Johnson, Ariano Hardy Nyuli Johnson Richmond Richmond Fleck Goettel & Castillo, P.C., Elgin, for Appellant.

Michael A. Weiman, Weiman & Associates, Chicago; and David J. Wessel, Law Offices of Wessel & Doheny, Chicago, for Appellees.


Presiding Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

A law firm contends the statute that authorizes disgorgement of interim fees paid to it by its client in a marriage dissolution case is constitutionally defective. We conclude a decision on the issue will have to wait for another day. We lack jurisdiction to decide it.

The appellant, the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd. (Leving), appeals an interim order entered by the trial court prior to...

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