About Eliot
Eliot Jessop is an Illinois attorney who represents fathers in family court. He practices in Chicago and is associated with the Chicago Fathers Rights Law Center, LLC. Jessop has built a practice centered on family law matters that commonly affect fathers, including custody, parenting time, paternity and support disputes.
He completed his legal education before taking the bar exam in Illinois and entering practice. Early in his career he worked on a range of family law matters and gradually concentrated his work on cases where fathers sought more active roles in their children’s lives. That shift steered him toward courtroom work as well as alternative dispute resolution.
Over the years Jessop has handled contested hearings and negotiated agreements in both trial courts and administrative settings. He represents clients at initial filings, temporary orders hearings and final adjudications. His work covers petitions for custody and parenting-time modifications, paternity litigation, enforcement of parenting-time orders and motions for contempt. He also addresses financial issues tied to family disputes, including child-support calculations and petitions for modification.
Jessop’s practice routinely involves drafting parenting plans, preparing evidence for trial and working with experts when cases call for psychological, educational or forensic analysis. He frequently prepares clients for depositions, pretrial matters and hearings. Where appropriate, he pursues settlement through mediation or collaborative processes. He also handles emergency motions when immediate relief for parenting-time or child safety is needed.
Clients and opposing counsel encounter him in county courthouses across the Chicago area. He is familiar with the local procedural rules and the practical demands of presenting family law matters in court. He pays attention to the procedural posture of each case and the testimony that will carry weight at hearing. He adapts strategy to the stage of the case, whether the goal is to secure a temporary order or to prepare for trial.
Today Jessop practices at Chicago Fathers Rights Law Center, LLC. He represents fathers in custody, parenting-time, paternity and related family law matters and handles litigation, settlement negotiations and court appearances in Illinois.
