Elizabeth Lazzara joined Aronberg Goldgehn in July 1998 and since 2022, Elizabeth has served as the Co-Chair of Aronberg Goldgehn’s Executive Management Committee.

Elizabeth currently serves as Co-Chair of the firm's Divorce and Family Law practice group. Elizabeth has extensive experience representing clients in all phases of a divorce or family law conflict, including prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; custody and parenting time disputes, child support and maintenance; classification of marital and non-marital assets, property distributions; valuations of closely-held corporations, limited partnerships, retirement funds, commercial and residential real estate holdings and employee stock options; and tax analysis of complex income scenarios. Elizabeth works closely with forensic accountants and valuation experts to determine income tracing, non-marital and marital asset classifications and valuations.

Elizabeth devotes a substantial portion of her time representing clients on child-related matters involving contested and uncontested child custody, allocation of parental rights and responsibilities, supervised and unsupervised parenting time, special needs parenting, permanent relocation, domestic violence, Orders of Protection, DCFS reporting and investigation, and issues involving mental health of the parties and children and physical, sexual and/or substance abuse and addiction. In this capacity, Elizabeth works closely with court-appointed Guardians ad Litem, psychiatrists and child psychologists on custody evaluations in both mediated and litigated settings.

Elizabeth is also a skilled mediator, having completed the Divorce Mediation Skills Training course at Northwestern University School of Professional Studies. Today Elizabeth uses these mediation skills to assist families in reaching reasonable, creative and cost-effective solutions. Elizabeth is qualified to mediate both Discretionary (financially-related issues) and Mandatory (custody-related issues) mediation cases.

Elizabeth holds the AV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability. Elizabeth has been recognized as a 10 Best for Client Satisfaction by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys. Since 2020, she has been selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the field of Family Law. In addition, she has been named to the inaugural 2020 Best of the Best Attorney’s Top 10 Family Law Attorneys list for Illinois.

Elizabeth has been recognized by Illinois Leading Lawyers for Family Law from 2003-2025, by Illinois Super Lawyers; by Best Lawyers in America for Family Law from 2019 to 2026, and by Crain's Chicago Business as a Notable Gen X Leader (2019) and Notable Woman Lawyer (2018).

Elizabeth regularly publishes and lectures on numerous family law topics, including “Preventing Critical Financial Mistakes During Divorce” and "Family Law From A to Z." Most recently, she presented “Initiating the Child Support Case” and “Modifying and Enforcing Child Support Decrees” at the National Business Institute’s “Advanced Issues in Assignment of Parental Responsibilities and Support in Divorce” seminar, March 2017.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Representing professional service business owners, including doctors, dentists and attorneys in protecting and valuing business interests

• Representing owners of residential, commercial, investment and equestrian properties in connection with the valuation and classification of assets

• Represent business owners, dentists, doctors, and other entrepenuers in preserving their business interests from marital division

• Successfully representing minority shareholder’s non-marital interest in a family business

• Representing full-time homemakers, housewives and mothers in securing rehabilitative and permanent maintenance

• Representing self-employed individuals and high wage-earners in maintenance and support matters

• Representing clients in issues involving interstate custody disputes

• Representing parents of special needs children in determine school selection, IEPs and special programming, medication, treatment and parenting time

• Representing victims of domestic violence in protecting their rights and the rights of their children

• Representing parents and grandparents in all phases of parenting, custody, guardianship, parenting time, supervised parenting time and restricted parenting issues

• Successfully litigating a father’s pursuit to have custody of his minor child

• Working with evaluators and mental health professionals on psychological evaluations and testing, substance abuse and sexual deviance evaluations

 

 

    

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