In Re Marriage of Wolff

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing a “pleading,” which “consists of a party’s formal allegations of his claims or defenses,” from a “motion,” which is an “application to the court for a ruling or an order in a pending case”
• distinguishing a “pleading,” which “consists of a party’s formal allegations of his claims or defenses,” from a “motion,” which is an “application to the court for a ruling or an order in a pending case”
• a party's failure to raise an issue in the trial court results in forfeiture of the issue
• a pleading consists of a party’s formal allegations of his claims or defenses, while a motion is an application to the court for a ruling or order in a pending case
• “Failure to raise the lack of a reply to affirmative defenses in the trial court also results in waiver of that issue on appeal.” (citing Andrews v. Cramer, 256 Ill. App. 3d 766, 769 (1993))
• “Section 2—619 applies only to the dismissal of pleadings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).