MAINTENANCE: This used to be called "alimony." Maintenance is money paid by one spouse for the support of the other, either after the divorce is granted or sometimes even during the time the divorce case is pending. See also "temporary maintenance."

MARITAL PROPERTY: This is property that in effect belongs to both parties and which the court can divide up in the divorce. Marital property basically includes all the property acquired during the marriage with certain exceptions. See "non-marital property.”

MARITAL RESIDENCE: This is the home that you and your spouse lived in during the marriage.

MEDIATION: This is a process in which you and your spouse sit down with a person called a mediator who tries to help you to resolve differences by getting you to communicate and talk to each other, the idea being that when you can communicate effectively a compromise might be reached. Mediation takes place without your attorney present and, generally, anything you say during mediation is confidential and cannot be brought up in court unless you do in fact reach an agreement. Mediation is routinely ordered at the beginning of a divorce case in which there is a dispute regarding custody or visitation of children. There are normally two sessions of mediation - one with just you, your spouse and the mediator, the other includes your children if they are of a certain age.

MEDIATION INTAKE: A date specified by the judge for you and your spouse to come in to meet with the mediators. The purpose of this date is for the judge to give a little speech about the mediation process and for you to schedule mediation sessions with the mediator.

MEDIATION STATUS: A court date set by the judge at which the mediator comes to the court and informs the judge as to what progress if any has been made. If you and your spouse have come to an agreement the mediator will inform the judge as to what the agreement is. If no agreement has been reached the next step in the process is usually the appointment of an attorney for the children.

MEDIATOR: Someone who assists in communication between you and your spouse at the mediation sessions. The mediator is not there to be a judge or to give either party legal advice or to make any sort of real decisions. Their only job is to help you and your spouse to communicate and hopefully reach an agreement of your own. The mediator then reports to the judge as to what progress if any has been made in the mediation sessions.

MENTAL CRUELTY: This is one of the two main grounds for divorce used in Illinois (the other being "irreconcilable differences"). "Mental cruelty" sounds a lot worse than it actually is. It basically means that without you doing anything to provoke it, you spouse did things like criticize you, call you names and refuse to participate actively in the marriage. Generally these things must also result in you suffering from other problems such as nervousness, anxiety and sleeplessness.

MMPI: This is an abbreviation for Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. This is a test administered by many mental health professionals and is often used when doing evaluations in custody and/or visitation disputes.

MODIFIABLE MAINTENANCE: This is an award of maintenance which can by its own terms can be changed later down the road. There are advantages and disadvantages to having a maintenance award be modifiable. Your lawyer will help you to figure out whether in your particular circumstance modifiable maintenance is best for you, whether you're the person paying or the person receiving.

MODIFICATION: Generally, this means a change in any judgment or order, whether it be a provision related to custody, child support or maintenance (modifications related to distribution of property are very rare for reasons which your lawyer can explain to you). As a general rule of thumb, any time a party wants to have an order or judgment modified he or she has to show a change in circumstances occurring since the time that order or judgment was entered or the time it was most recently modified.

MOTION: Any time you want the court to do something, such as order your spouse to do something or to stop doing something, or to allow you to do something, you have to do it with a pleading, generically called a "motion." Technically speaking, for all you law fans out there, a "motion" is something that your lawyer can bring before the court without you verifying any of the things mentioned in it. A "petition," on the other hand, is something which contains information that you have personal knowledge of that your lawyer wouldn't know. For all practical purposes however, motions and petitions are the same thing and lawyers and judges rarely make much of the distinction between the two.

MOTION TO COMPEL: A motion which asks the court to force the other side to comply with requests for discovery. Actually, courts would prefer that parties work out their discovery problems for themselves and, toward that end, a party seeking discovery is required by rule to make an attempt to resolve the problem through communication with the other side. If this still hasn't worked the party seeking the discovery can bring a motion to compel to force the other side to provide the discovery. Also, a party often seeks some sort of sanctions in a motion to compel but these are not always granted as the judge has a lot of discretion in this regard.

MOTION TO STRIKE: A motion asking the court to disallow a pleading of the other side because of some legal insufficiency. Quite often, the problems complained of in a motion to strike are technical, legal problems. It is worth noting that sometimes even if a judge does grant a motion to strike the other side is often allowed to amend their pleading to try to get it right.

MOTION TO VACATE: A motion asking the court to in effect wipe out a previous order or judgment and to make it invalid. There are really two types of motions to vacate. One is a motion to vacate an order within thirty days of its entry. The other is a motion to vacate an order more than thirty days after it has been entered. The requirements for vacating an order more than thirty days after it has been entered are, as you might assume, much more strict.

MOTION TO WITHDRAW: A motion brought by an attorney to end his involvement with a case. This is sometimes done whenever there has been a breakdown in relations between the client and the attorney or if the client is not meeting financial obligations. Usually, if the attorney is allowed to withdraw, the client is allowed time to get another attorney.

NEGOTIATION: Interacting and communicating with the other side in hopes of reaching some sort of compromise.

NET INCOME: This is a concept that is most often of importance when talking about figuring out the amount of child support to be paid by a parent. Usually, child support is figured as a percentage of the parent's "net income" as defined by the statute. "Net income" for purposes of child support is basically all the person's income from all sources minus such things as taxes paid, mandatory retirement contributions, union dues, health insurance premiums, prior obligations or support or maintenance and certain expenditures related to the production of income or for the health or benefit of the child or the other parent.

NO-FAULT DIVORCE: This is a divorce using the grounds of "irreconcilable differences."

NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT: This is the parent who is not awarded custody of the child. A non-custodial parent is, of course, required to make payments for the support of the child. A non-custodial parent is entitled to visitation of the child.

NON-MARITAL PROPERTY: This is property that is the separate property of one spouse and which cannot be divided up by the court in the divorce. Non-marital property includes property acquired before the marriage, property that is received as a gift or through an inheritance, property acquired by a spouse after a judgment of legal separation, the increase in value of items of non-marital property (subject to possible reimbursement) and income from non-marital property if the income is not subject to the personal efforts of a spouse.

NON-MODIFIABLE MAINTENANCE: This is an award of maintenance which by its terms cannot be changed. That is, it will stay at the same amount and end when the order or judgment says it will end. Your lawyer can explain whether or not such an award is in your best interests, whether you are the person receiving the support or the person paying the support. See also "modifiable maintenance."

NOTICE: This is one of those important little legal things that lawyers have to worry about and which sometimes seem to slow down the whole divorce process. Generally, whenever you want to go into court to ask for something you have to give notice to the other side as to what you'll be asking for and when you'll be going into court to ask for it. This is commonly done through a "notice of motion" which is basically just a form announcing when you'll be going to court and what you'll be asking for. It's important to note that, under the rules, a person is entitled to notice a certain amount of time beforehand and that's one of the things that often seems to slow things down.

NOTICE OF WITHHOLDING: A form sent out to the employer of someone who is to pay child support and/or maintenance through an order of support. The notice of withholding is to let the employer know that an order of support has been entered by the judge and it directs the employer to deduct the specified amount from the check of the person paying support. The notice also directs the employer to send the support payments either directly to the person receiving them or to the clerk of the court to be remitted to the person who is to receive them.

NOTICE TO APPEAR AND PRODUCE AT TRIAL: A notice given to a party to bring certain documents with them on a date set for hearing or trial.

NOTICE TO PRODUCE (214 NOTICE): A notice sent out by a party as a method of doing discovery by requesting the other side to produce listed documents.

OPINION WITNESS: Any witness who testifies as to matters of opinion rather than to specific facts related to the case.

ORDER: Whenever the judge makes a decision and wants something done, he enters an order. Any direction given by the judge is done typically through an order. The order physically is a document, often prepared by one of the attorneys (and shown to the other side for so that both are sure the order says what it's supposed to) and entered by the judge. The judge has the power to enforce his orders and can hold someone in contempt (i.e., send them to jail) for not following his orders. A "judgment" is basically an order that is entered at the end of a case.

ORDER FOR SUPPORT: An order directing that child support and/or maintenance is to be paid by one party to the other. See also "notice of withholding."

ORDER FOR WITHHOLDING: An old term for an order similar to an order for support. Orders for withholding have been replaced by orders for support and their counterparts, notices of withholding.

ORDER OF PROTECTION: An order entered by the judge which prohibits one party from harassing, intimidating or abusing the other party. To obtain an order of protection, it is necessary to show that you have been abused by a family or household member (typically, the other party in a domestic relations case). It is also possible to get other types of relief through an order of protection such as exclusive possession of your home, required counseling for the other party, custody of children and protection of property. See also "abuse."

PARENTAGE: This is what we used to more commonly call "paternity." Parentage cases typically are those in which either a woman attempts to show that a man to whom she was not married is the father of her child or in which a man attempts to show that he is in fact the father of a child born to a woman to whom he was not married. A person determined to be a parent through a parentage proceeding has the same rights and obligations regarding that child as if they had been married to that child's other parent.

PATERNITY: A somewhat out-dated term for "parentage." See "parentage."

PERJURY: The crime of lying under oath in the course of a proceeding or in providing information during the discovery process.

PERSONAL PROPERTY: Generally, just about every type of property you have other than your house or land.

PETITION: A pleading brought before the judge asking him or her to do something. For all practical purposes this is pretty much the same thing as a "motion." See "motion."

PETITIONER: The party who actually files for divorce. PLEADING: A written request presented to the judge asking him or her to do something or a response to the other side's request, explaining to the judge why he or she should not do what the other side is asking for. "Pleadings" as a general category include motions, petitions, responses and replies.

POST-DECREE: Anything related to a divorce case which happens after the judgment for dissolution has already been entered. Post-decree matters include things such as modifications of child support or maintenance, modifications of custody or enforcement of court orders such as orders for the payment of child support. In Cook County each "team" of judges in the Domestic Relations division has its own particular judge who handles post-decree matters.

POST-HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL EXPENSES: Child support obligations as such typically end when the child turns eighteen or when they graduate from high school, whichever is later. However, the law says that a parent may be required to contribute to the expenses of a child who has the aptitude and the desire to pursue education after high school. These expenses include things like room and board, tuition, books, transportation and medical expenses. The guidelines for determining how much is to be contributed by a parent towards post-high school expenses is not as clear-cut as those for determining child support but the factors that are typically considered include the financial resources of both parents, the standard of living the child would have enjoyed had the parents not been dissolved and the financial resources of the child.

PRELIMINARY JUDGE: In Cook County, this is the leader of a "team" of domestic relations judges who hears all the matters related to the divorce case up until the time the case goes to trial.

PREMARITAL AGREEMENT: An agreement entered into by the parties before they get married. The purpose of the agreement is usually to specify the rights of each party in the event of a divorce. If the agreement is found to be valid it will be controlling should the parties in fact later get a divorce.

PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE: This is a meeting with the judge and the attorneys for both parties. Its purpose is to try to resolve some of the issues without going to trial by presenting the issues and facts to the judge more or less informally so that he or she can make a recommendation as to what they would be inclined to do. Different judges handle pre-trial conferences in different ways. Some will talk to the parties as well as to the attorneys. However, some will not talk to the parties directly. Sometimes the parties will be required to at least come down to the courthouse and wait in the courtroom while the judge conducts the pre-trial conference in his chambers with just the attorneys present, the idea being that the parties will be nearby in case an agreement can be hammered out at that time. In our practice, we generally recommend that the party come down to court for the pre-trial conference whether required by the judge or not, just so you can stay on top of what is going on and we can get an idea from you as to whether or not the judge's recommendation is something close to what you would be willing to accept.

PROPERTY: This includes everything possessed by you and/or your spouse. It would include things like your house, your automobiles, your savings and checking accounts, your cash on hand, your furniture and appliances, clothes, jewelry and even less obvious things like pension or retirement plans and interests in businesses or intangibles like copyrights or patents. For purposes of divorce cases, courts classify property as either "marital" or "non-marital." See "marital property" and "non-marital property."

PRO SE LITIGANT/PRO SE PARTY: Someone who represents himself in a case.

PROTECTIVE ORDER: See "order of protection."

PROVE-UP: A simplified court procedure, undergone when an agreement has been reached as to all issues, in which testimony is taken from one or more of the parties as to the grounds for the divorce, the jurisdiction of the court and the basic points of the agreement reached. In an uncontested divorce this is normally the only court appearance required and it usually only has to be attended by the person who files.

QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER (QDRO): An order which directs the administrator of a pension or retirement plan to pay out benefits in a certain way at specified times in the future. This is often used in a divorce case in which one or both parties has acquired significant pension or retirement benefits to which neither they nor their spouse are actually entitled to receive at the time of the divorce. Obviously, people who get divorced in their thirties might have acquired some such benefits but they might not be entitled to receive anything for thirty years or more down the road. The entry of a QDRO by the judge is the best way to make sure that you get whatever benefits of your spouse's plan that you might be entitled to.

QUALIFIED ILLINOIS DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER (QILDRO): An order which directs the administrator of a municipal pension or retirement plan to pay out benefits in a certain way at specified times in the future. This is often used in a divorce case in which one or both parties has acquired significant pension or retirement benefits to which neither they nor their spouse are actually entitled to receive at the time of the divorce. Obviously, people who get divorced in their thirties might have acquired some such benefits but they might not be entitled to receive anything for thirty years or more down the road. The entry of a QILDRO by the judge is the best way to make sure that you get whatever benefits of your spouse's plan to which you may be entitled. QILDRO’s are different than QDROs in that they have to be for a specified amount (not percentage), must be agreed to by the participant, have no rights of survivorship for the non-participant spouse and the non-participant spouse’s share reverts back to the participant in the event the non-participant dies first.

REAL PROPERTY: Land or anything permanently attached to the land, such as your house.

RECONCILIATION CALENDAR: This is like putting the case on hold should the parties want to try to work out their problems and get back together. The advantage to doing this as opposed to having the case dismissed is that, should you and your spouse be unable to work things out, you do not have to go through the trouble of filing another case and paying the fees again.

REHABILITATIVE MAINTENANCE: Maintenance which is intended to last for only a relatively short period of time while the person receiving the maintenance "gets on their feet" and acquires the education or skills to provide for themselves or to get back out into the working world. These days, rehabilitative maintenance is more the rule than the exception. Awards of maintenance on a permanent basis are rather rare.

REMOVAL: Generally, when we talk about removal from a legal standpoint, we talk about the custodial parent moving and taking the child with to a new home in another state. Many judgments for dissolution have specific provisions addressing what will happen if such situations arise. Aside from any such provisions, the law basically puts the burden on the parent seeking the removal to show that the move is in the best interest of the child.

REPLY: A pleading by one side which addresses issues or matters brought up another party's response. Sometimes replies are not actually necessary if the other party raises no new matters in their response.

RESIDENTIAL PARENT: The parent with whom the child lives on a day-to-day basis, regardless of whether it is a joint custody situation or a sole custody situation. Also sometimes called a "primary residential parent."

RESPONDENT: The non-filing party in a divorce case.

RESPONSE: A pleading which addresses the issues or matters brought up in another party's motion or petition. Usually the response addresses the issues or matters brought up in the motion or petition by admitting or denying the allegations or by claiming that there is insufficient information to either admit or deny them.

RETAINER: An amount of money paid to an attorney at the beginning of a case as compensation for representing you. Retainers are charged by most attorneys in contested divorce cases. The amount of the retainer depends on a number of factors including the complexity of the issues involved and the experience of the attorney. The retainer amount may not represent the total amount of money to be paid to the attorney for representing the client in the case. Should more work be involved, the lawyer typically then begins to bill the client at a specified hourly rate or rates which are made known to the client at the beginning of the case.

ROUTINE MOTION: A motion that the court will grant as a matter of course and usually one that the other side would have no real objection to anyway. This would include things such as a motion for the appointment of a special process server which in the Domestic Relations division are usually entered without having to step up in front of the judge.

RULE TO SHOW CAUSE: An order issued by a judge for a party to appear before the court in person to explain why he or she has not followed a previous order entered by the court. If such person cannot offer a good reason justifying his or her failure to follow the order he or she can be held in contempt and put in jail.

SANCTIONS: Any sort of penalty levied against either a party or their attorney. This would include fines imposed on an attorney for bringing a motion in bad faith or any of a number of actions a judge might take against a party for not complying with discovery requests.

STATE DISBURSEMENT UNIT (SDU): A centralized agency for the tracking and disbursement of child support payments. It was a real nightmare when it started but is getting better. The advantages of having your support go through the SDU is theoretically they will keep track of what has been paid. They eliminate bounced checks. There is one place for employers to pay. The general down side is that they take a long time. If everything goes all right your first check could take four to six weeks to come to you although subsequent checks should come more promptly. However this agency has in the past really screwed up and taken forever to pay. Technically if money is withheld from a person’s check it must go through the SDU.

SEPARATE MAINTENANCE: A term of art used in some other states; basically, it just means "maintenance" or what used to be called "alimony."

SEPARATION: The act or condition of living apart while still legally married. In Illinois it is not required that married people go through any formal court process to live in different residences but in some situations it might be advisable to seek a legal separation. See "legal separation."

SERVICE: Basically, the method used to let someone know of an action pending against them and the fact that they need to act. Service can be made by a few different methods depending on the situation. The most common method of serving someone in most domestic relations cases is by personal service, that is, having a process server physically handing a summons and petition to the person directly.

SLAUGHTER CALL: A date set by the judge at which the parties or their attorneys must appear to let the judge know what is going on with the case. These dates are actually generated automatically and little postcards are sent out to the parties or their attorneys to announce them. Often, if there is already another date pending in the case, the slaughter call date can simply be stricken by letting the judge's clerk know of the pending date. That way nobody has to show up on the case on the slaughter call date. However, if the date is not stricken ahead of time and nobody shows up on the slaughter call date at the specified time, the case will be dismissed for want of prosecution, hence the term "slaughter call." See "dismissal for want of prosecution" [DWP].

SOJ: Abbreviation for "substitution of judges."

SOLE CUSTODY: One of two types of custody arrangements (the other being "joint custody"). With a sole custody arrangement the child lives with one parent on a day-to-day basis and that parent makes all the important, major decisions affecting the child's life.

STATUS: A court appearance in which the attorneys for the parties report to the judge on progress regarding a specific matter. Typically no major decisions are made by a judge at a status and the presence of the parties themselves is often not necessary. However, status dates do serve an important function in that they help move the case along and they allow the judge to monitor the progress being made as well as to keep the case fresh in the judges mind (some of these judges are kind of old and they don't always remember the details of a particular case from one month to the next, especially when they have hundreds and hundreds of different case on their dockets).

STIPULATION: (1) an agreement as to the existence of a particular fact, made by the lawyers for both parties, so as to expedite matters at trial and to avoid wasting time on issues that are not in dispute; (2) a document signed by the parties and their attorneys certifying that all issues in the case have been resolved and that the case is ready for prove-up.

SUBPOENA: A document issued by the clerk of the court requiring a person to appear and give testimony and/or provide documents at either a deposition or at trial.

SUBSTITUTION OF JUDGES: Each party has the absolute right by law to change judges one time so long as that judge has not yet made any sort of substantial rulings in the case. After that, to change judges, you have to go through the rather difficult process of showing "good cause" as to why the particular judge you are in front of should not hear the case. Your lawyer can let you know when it might be advisable to use your substitution of judges.

SUPPORT: A general term for money paid to support a child or spouse/ex-spouse. This would include maintenance and child support. However it is much more common to use the term only to indicate "child support" as opposed to "maintenance."

SUPPORT ORDER: Now a form order which allows deduction of child support and /or alimony (maintenance) from a person’s check. Previously it was the practice to enter an order for support and the attorney would serve it with a notice of withholding. Now this is done on one form that is being constantly updated by the Court, State’s Attorney and the Department of Public Aid.

SUPREME COURT: This is the highest Court in our state. It is the Court above the Appellate Court, and for most purposes, it is the Court of absolute last resort. Actually, very few domestic relations cases even make it all the way to the Supreme Court because, although you have a right to appeal a case to the Appellate Court, you don't necessarily have a right to have the Supreme Court hear your case. The Supreme Court actually has a lot of discretion as to which cases it will hear and they don't choose to hear many domestic relations cases unless there is a very controversial specific issue that needs to be resolved.

TAX DEDUCTIBLE: Anything for which you can subtract amounts from your adjusted gross income in order to determine the amount of tax you are to pay. For instance, uninsured medical expenses can, to an extent, be tax deductible. Also, charitable contributions may be tax deductible.

TAX EXEMPTIONS: A set amount of money, representing either yourself and/or people dependent upon you for support, which you are allowed to subtract from your adjusted gross income to determine the amount of tax you are to pay.

TEAM: In the Domestic Relations division of the Cook County courts, a group of judges consisting of one preliminary judge, one post-decree judge and approximately three trial judges. There are five teams of judges and cases are assigned to one of the teams. However, some cases get assigned to "individual calendars" and then are heard by one judge from beginning to end. Before your case is actually filed it is impossible to tell whether your case will be assigned to an individual calendar or to a team, or to which team your case might end up with.

TEMPORARY CUSTODY: An award of custody of children during the time the divorce case is pending, subject to a final decision at the end of the case.

TEMPORARY MAINTENANCE: An award of maintenance to be paid by one spouse for the support of another during the time the divorce case is pending, subject to a final decision at the end of the case.

TEMPORARY SUPPORT: An award of child support to be paid by a non-custodial parent during the time the divorce case is pending, subject to a final decision at the end of the case.

TENDER YEARS DOCTRINE: An outdated presumption that children under a certain age are better off being in the custody of their mother in case of divorce. This is not the law in Illinois today!

TRANSCRIPT: The written report of proceedings at court made by the court reporter.

TRIAL: The hearing of testimony and the presentation of evidence in a case. In domestic relations cases there are no juries and the judge is the person who makes all the decisions as to law and fact. Trials normally start out with opening statements by the lawyers followed by evidence and testimony from the Petitioner and/or his witnesses. Then the Respondent has an opportunity to present evidence and testimony. After all the testimony has been heard and all the evidence has been presented the lawyers will have an opportunity to make closing arguments. After that the judge will make a decision although this does not always happen right away. Often the judge will take some time to come to a decision in the case.

UNALLOCATED MAINTENANCE: An award that is a combination of child support and maintenance together with no distinction in amount between the two. Sometimes such an arrangement might be advisable because of potential tax benefits as the whole award will be treated as maintenance for tax purposes (remember that maintenance is generally taxable to the person receiving it and deductible by the person paying it).

UNCONTESTED DIVORCE: A divorce in which there are no disputed issues and in which an agreement is reached on all issues prior to going to court for the entry of the judgment. Normally, in such a divorce, the parties waive their respective rights to do discovery and dispense with the formal requirements of notice and service.

VENUE: The place (county) where a case is actually heard. Within Cook County there are actually a few different venues in which a case might be heard such as either the Daley Center or the Bridgeview courthouse. However, the more complicated venue issue from a legal perspective is the decision that sometimes arises as to which county a case should be heard in.

VISITATION: The time children spend with their non-residential parent. There really is no "normal" or "average" visitation schedule but every other weekend with one day during the week is rather typical.

WAIVE: To give up a right to something like when a party waives a right to seek maintenance.

WEDLOCK: The condition or state of being married.

WITNESS: Anybody called by either side at trial or at a hearing to offer testimony of any kind.

4-WAY CONFERENCE: A conference held with the parties and their lawyers in which the issues are discussed and attempts are made to resolve issues and come to some sort of agreements. These conferences are usually held at the office of one of the lawyers and after discovery has for the most part been completed.

13.3 AFFIDAVIT: A form required in Cook County in which you provide information regarding your financial situation including your income and expenses. This is usually the first real step in the discovery process and it is also referred to as a "financial statement" or an "income and expense affidavit."

215(a) EXPERT: An expert witness selected and called by one party to testify as to the mental and/or physical condition of a party or the children of the parties. The term "215(a) expert" comes from the number of the court rule which provides for and governs such experts. Normally the person hiring the 215(a) expert is responsible for all costs involved although the Court may order otherwise. The experts report must be completed within 21 days of the completion of the examination (although this rule is often violated) and is given to all attorneys in the case.

215(d) EXPERT: An impartial expert witness selected by the court (and paid for by the parties) to testify as to the mental and/or physical condition of a party, parties or the children of the parties. The term "215(d) expert" comes from the number of the court rule which provides for and governs such experts.

604(b) WITNESS/EXAM: An exam ordered by the court, either on its own or by the motion of one of the parties, for an examination of the mental condition of the parties or their children. When such an exam is ordered the judge normally appoints the person to do the exam although often the lawyers for the two parties will be allowed to choose one together if there is someone mutually agreeable. This person is the Court’s witness and as such is presumed to be independent.

2-1401 MOTION: A motion to vacate a judgment more than thirty days after it has been entered. See "motion to vacate."