In re Marriage of Danko

PRESIDING JUSTICE EGAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The respondent, Ronald Danko, appeals from an order which vacated part of a default judgment for dissolution of marriage which had been entered pursuant to his counterpetition for dissolution of marriage. The principal issue is whether the trial judge erred when she based the vacature order on the alleged ineffective assistance of one of the petitioner’s attorneys.

The petitioner, Celeste Danko, filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on October 2, 1986, to end her 17-year marriage to Ronald Danko. The Dankos had three children and…