My question involves a marriage in the state of: Illinois
I'm in the middle of a divorce after being married 39 years to an abusive alcoholic.
I was advised to accept the offer of the use of a joint credit card for necessary living expenses plus payment of house expenses and insurance in lieu of maintenance.
My spouse claims $24,000 a year on income taxes, in reality it's between $150,000 and $200,000. There is approximately $3-$4 mil in assets. That's another story. I make $10,000 in a good year. I was the majority breadwinner when we were first married.
Besides the numerouse false accusations that don't make a difference in a no fault state anyway, my husband's attorney has filed intent to claim dissipation twice so far. The reasons on the first filing were groundless and comical, but the second one is based on absurd, easily proven false statements.
The evidence supplied with the second filing reiterated many from the first, but added to it was a copy of the joint credit card statement for December with a large number of purchases highlighted. The credit card statement shows the place of purchase and the total. They highlighted proof of my waste of marital assets included Walmart (groceries cleaning supplies, etc) Kohls, a toy store, Costco, Amazon, eBay, Menards, etc (Christmas gifts) a tire store (replace bald tires), a gas station (gas to drive home from seeing grandkids)....you get the idea.
The most ridiculous highlighted expenses were a charge to a major airline for my ticket to spend Christmas with my sister and the fee to take my small 14 year old dog on the plane with me.
The dissipation claim stated "That xxxxx xxxxx, without xxxxx xxxxx's knowledge or consent, has made charges on the credit card for her own personal use and enjoyment in the amount of $3,597.76. Specifically, and including but not limited to, buying round trip plane tickets for herself and her brother to travel out of State on vacation and new tires for her car, in addition to purchasing material for her business."
I've read "that lawyers are obligated to undertake some form of preliminary investigation into clients’ intended claims and contentions. And are ethically prohibited against the pursuit of frivolous claims and contentions and how the governing rule, along with others, obligates lawyers to undertake reasonable investigations before making a claim or contention on a client’s behalf." http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore..._chap1_abs.pdf
My spouses attorney used a credit card statement from the credit card that was court ordered to be used by me for living expenses. It's obvious the credit card statement didn't show what was purchased, just totals spent. My spouse made up stories about what was purchased and his attorney ran with it to file another frivolous charge. (wasting marital assets BTW)
Is this enough of a basis to file for sanctions against my spouses attorney for filing frivolous litigation and failing to make reasonable investigation into her client's statements?

