Practice/Organization Description
Raiford D. Palmer is an experienced Illinois attorney concentrating in family law with a focus on high net worth divorce and complex divorce cases. His family law work includes divorce, collaborative divorce, child custody, child support, asset valuation and division, maintenance, and post-decree matters, and premarital (prenuptial) agreement drafting. Raif primarily serves clients in DuPage, Cook, and Will Counties.
Raif joined Momkus McCluskey LLC in 1994, and later formed his own law practice in 2001. In 2006, he rejoined as a Partner and merged his successful family law practice with the firm.
Raif Palmer’s experience and achievements include multiple successful jury and bench trials, numerous successful arbitrations and mediations, and many successfully resolved divorce and family law matters.
He has substantial experience with business formation and transactional matters, buy-sell and operating agreements, commercial real estate transactions, commercial leases, and employment agreements which enable him to better handle complex divorce cases involving substantial assets.
Bar Admissions
Illinois, 1994
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1994
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar
U.S. Supreme Court, 2007
Certified Guardian Ad Litem/Child Representative, Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, DuPage County, Illinois
Certfied Arbitrator, Circuit Court of Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, DuPage County, Illinois
Education
J.D., 1994, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
B.A., 1991, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Professional Associations & Memberships
Illinois State Bar Association (Family Law Section Council)
DuPage County Bar Association (Family Law Committee, Business Law Committee)
