Supreme Court of Illinois

A notice of appeal does not stay enforcement of a parental rights termination order, and an adoption order based on a termination order becomes unchallengeable after the passage of one year.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2002
• Published 01/29/2003

Judges

• Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rita Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Emily Eisner, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, Nancy Grauer Kisicki and Jennifer Streeter, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick T. Murphy, Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago (Charles P. Golbert and Allison D. Ortlieb, of counsel), for appellee minors.