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In a dissolution of marriage proceeding, the Champaign County Circuit Court (Illinois) certified a question for interlocutory review pursuant to Ill. Sup. Ct. R. 308: ?In a bifurcated dissolution proceeding, when a grounds judgment has been entered and when there is a lengthy delay between the date of the entry of the grounds judgment and the hearing on ancillary issues, is the appropriate date for valuation of marital property the date of dissolution or a date as close as practicable to the date of trial of the ancillary issues?? The court answered the question by concluding that the appropriate valuation date for the situation presented was the date of trial on the property distribution matter or some other date as close to the date of that trial as was practicable. The certified question was answered and the case was remanded for further proceedings.