Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a dispositional order making a child a ward of the court, the decision is reversed and remanded where: 1) it is possible for the written finding requirement called for by the Juvenile Court Act to be met if there is an oral finding in the record and if it explicitly advises the parties of the basis for the court's decision; and 2) the circuit court made an oral finding in the record, but it was neither explicit nor fact-specific as to the mother and, therefore, it failed to give her fair notice of the reasons for the decision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/19/2005
• Published 05/19/2005

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Albert G. Algren, State's Attorney, Monmouth (Gary S. Feinerman, Solicitor General, Karen J. Dimond, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Norbert J. Goetten, Lawrence M. Bauer, Judith Z. Kelly, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, of counsel), for the People., Charles P. Golbert, Janet L. Barnes, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for amicus curiae Robert F. Harris, Cook County Public Guardian.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan O'Neal Brosam, Sullivan, for appellee.