Drew Peterson meets with divorce attorney

CHICAGO -- Drew Peterson, the former Bolingbrook police sergeant under investigation in the disappearance of his fourth wife, has met with a prominent divorce lawyer, his attorney said Monday.

Drew Peterson met with attorney Jeffery Leving sometime after the one-year anniversary of Stacy Peterson's disappearance "to get information to find out what his rights and obligations are," said Joel Brodsky, who represents Peterson in the disappearance investigation and on a felony gun charge.

Leving said he met with Peterson for a consultation but Peterson had not retained his services.

Stacy Peterson disappeared Oct. 28, 2007 from the couple's Bolingbrook home. Her husband has been named a a suspect in her disappearance, and authorities have called the case a possible homicide.

Peterson has said he believes his wife left him for another man.

Brodsky said a divorce filing is not imminent, but willful abandonment or desertion for at least one year is grounds for divorce under Illinois law.

After Stacy Peterson vanished, authorities reopened an investigation into the 2004 drowning of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, and exhumed her body. Savio's death was reclassified from an accident to a homicide after an autopsy.

Peterson has not been named a suspect in that case. He has denied wrongdoing in Stacy Peterson's disappearance and Savio's death.