Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services v. Warner

State: Illinois

Docket No: 103289 Rel

Case Date: 01/25/2008

Preview:Docket No. 103289.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES, Appellant, v. EVERETT WARNER, Appellee. Opinion filed January 25, 2008.

JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Garman and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Kilbride dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Fitzgerald and Karmeier.

OPINION In February 1996 the Illinois Department of Public Aid, now known as the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (the Department), filed a petition in the circuit court of Adams County to establish Everett Warner (respondent) as the father of C.S. and B.S. Respondent entered into an agreed judgment of parentage, and the court ordered him to pay child support. In October 2002, in a separate proceeding, respondent's parental rights were terminated. More than two years later

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