Legal Question in Family Law in Illinois

Re: Home state

If there is not a case in Kansas, you can bring a case in Illinois.

Re: Home state

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "home state"? There are many different contexts in legal matters where things like residence is defined in different ways. What do you want to do? Something in court? In the domestic relations context, the "home state" concept doesn't require you to do anything, what it means is that once a state is the "home state" of a child for 6 months, then that state's court has jurisdiction over things like child support and custody matters. You don't DO anything until you want or need to do things in court.