Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a petition for adjudication of wardship, the appellate court's reversal of the circuit court's appointment of a guardian ad litem for a mentally disabled mother who already had a plenary guardian of the person is reversed and remanded for consideration of the other issues raised in the appeal which the appellate court had not reached where there is no need, as a matter of law, to revoke the plenary guardian's letters of office before appointing a guardian ad litem.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2008
• Published 04/03/2008

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Deborah Ahlstrand, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, James E. Fitzgerald, Annette Collins, Nancy Faulls, Nancy Grauer Kisicki, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People., Robert F. Harris, Kass A. Plain, Janet L. Barnes, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for the minor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Adam M. Stern, of the Law Office of Lynch & Stern, Oak Park, for appellee Amy B.