Legal Question in Family Law in Illinois

Divorce Papers and Education

I've been having a hard time with my father recently. He was divorced from my mother March of 2005, a few months before I graduated my high school. They'd been fighting for years before that, and it finally fell through that month. The divorce settlement.. was.. sketchy. My mother didn't have a lawyer when it happened. But she didn't want his money. What she wanted was for me to get the education I deserve. So she took only $40,000 with the trust that he would put me through the college of my choice, he kept all else. Up until the point they started fighting, I was an excellent student. My grades slowly declined, and, honestly, were pretty bad in college. Part of the reason is that I worried so much about them, I made myself sick to the point I had to cut a semester short to rest and recover. I was worried about them, and later, worried about my own college and wellbeing. He refused to pay at a point until he seen my grades. If anybody knows college, grades come AFTER the deadline for financial aid, so it was always jumping through hoops for him. He hasn't signed my paperwork at a few points when I needed it and was willing to go to school. He's threatened to hurt me at points. There's more, but I'm out of space.

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