In re Marriage of Drewitch

PRESIDING JUSTICE EGAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

After many years of pretrial proceedings, the trial judge granted the respondent, Edmund Drewitch, what both parties label a default judgment of dissolution from his wife, Helena Drewitch. The judge denied Helena’s motion to vacate the judgment. Helena appeals.

Edmund was born in 1913 and Helena in 1930. They met in 1979 or 1980 and married in July 1980. Helena had married and divorced three times before she married Edmund. According to Edmund, Helena spent only 110 days living with him in his Urbana, Illinois, home between their…