Doing really hard time

What does the divorce court do with proceeds from a lawsuit for a wrongful conviction when the conviction occurred before the marriage and was reversed during the marriage? In a recent 1st District Appellate Court decision of In re Marriage of Rivera, 2016 Ill. App. (1st) 160552, the petitioner was convicted of murder in 1993 and was incarcerated from the time he was arrested in 1992 until January 2012. In …

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