Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of an agreed judgment of parentage whereby defendant was ordered to pay child support, denial of petition for vacation of the support order based on termination of defendant's parental rights is affirmed where there was no evidence that the children were, or had ever been, in the process of being adopted so as to bring the situation within section 17 of the Adoption Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/25/2008
• Published 01/25/2008

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Diane M. Potts, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellant., Robert F. Harris, Kass A. Plain, Jean M. Agathen, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for amicus curiae Public Guardian of Cook County.


• For Appellees:
  
• Betsy Bier, of Bier and Bier, Quincy, for appellee.