Recent Lectures & Articles
Goldberg Law Group has been protecting the interests of our clients for over 35 years. We focus on two areas: serving the legal needs of Illinois health care professionals, and assisting families in family law matters, such as Illinois parental rights, Illinois fathers rights, and Illinois grandparents rights. Our attorneys are frequent authors, lecturers, and presenters on both topics. In addition, Michael K. Goldberg is a leading attorney for Illinois grandparents rights cases involving grandparents visitation and Illinois grandparent rights.
Chicago Tribune touches on Inept Caregivers
Illinois regulators revoked the license of one Chicago emergency medical technician in 2000 after she repeatedly failed to provide proper care to patients in need. When they discovered she had lied to get a new license, regulators took it away again last year. More >
Update: Chicago Tribune Discusses Caregiver Database
Federal officials have removed the management team overseeing a national database of dangerous or incompetent caregivers after questions were raised about the repository’s accuracy. More >
A Survey of Illinois Law: Grandparent Visitation
As of October of 2007, in Illinois, there were 213,465 children reported to be living in grandparent-headed households, and of those children, over half of them were living with their grandparents without either parent present.1 In addition, 103,717 grandparents reported that they were the primary caregiver for grandchildren who are living with them.2 Almost ten years prior, in 1999, in Illinois, there were 165,897 children reported to be living in grandparent- headed households.3 In almost ten years, the number of children living in grandparent-headed households in Illinois more than doubled. More >