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,and 2004 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.

Lectures:        

• 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)