Supreme Court of Illinois

Prior to January 1, 1998, Juvenile Court Act section 1-5(3) did not require trial courts to admonish parents that they risked having their parental rights terminated if they failed to cooperate with the Department of Children and Family Services or to comply with the terms of the service plans.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2003
• Published 12/18/2003

Judges

• Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Paul A. Logli, State's Attorney, Rockford (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, John P. Schmidt, assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Martin P. Moltz, David A. Bernhard and Paul Benjamin Linton, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, of counsel), for the People., Charles P. Golbert and Allison D. Ortlieb, of the Cook County Office of the Public Guardian, Chicago, for amicus curiae Patrick T. Murphy, Cook County Public Guardian.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kathryn Bischoff, Rockford, for appellee.