Rep. Kelly Burke

Filed: 5/8/2014

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2892
2 AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2892 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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"ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
5 Section 101. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
7 Section 102. Public policy. Illinois recognizes the right
8of every child to the physical, mental, emotional, and
9financial support of his or her parents. The parent-child
10relationship, including support obligations, extends equally
11to every child and to his or her parent or to each of his or her
122 parents, regardless of the legal relationship of the parents,
13and regardless of whether a parent is a minor.
14 Section 103. Definitions. In this Act:

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1 (a) "Acknowledged father" means a man who has established a
2father-child relationship under Article 3.
3 (b) "Adjudicated father" means a man who has been
4adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, or as
5authorized under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code, to
6be the father of a child.
7 (c) "Alleged father" means a man who alleges himself to be,
8or is alleged to be, the biological father or a possible
9biological father of a child, but whose paternity has not been
10established. The term does not include:
11 (1) a presumed parent or acknowledged father;
12 (2) a man whose parental rights have been terminated or
13 declared not to exist; or
14 (3) a male donor.
15 (d) "Assisted reproduction" means any method of causing
16pregnancy other than sexual intercourse. The term includes but
17is not limited to:
18 (1) intrauterine insemination;
19 (2) donation of eggs;
20 (3) donation of embryos;
21 (4) in-vitro fertilization and transfer of embryos;
22 (5) intracytoplasmic sperm injection; and
23 (6) artificial insemination.
24 (e) "Child" means an individual of any age whose parentage
25may be established under this Act.
26 (f) "Combined paternity index" means the likelihood of

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1paternity calculated by computing the ratio between:
2 (1) the likelihood that the tested man is the father,
3 based on the genetic markers of the tested man, mother, and
4 child, conditioned on the hypothesis that the tested man is
5 the father of the child; and
6 (2) the likelihood that the tested man is not the
7 father, based on the genetic markers of the tested man,
8 mother, and child, conditioned on the hypothesis that the
9 tested man is not the father of the child and that the
10 father is of the same ethnic or racial group as the tested
11 man.
12 (g) "Commence" means to file the initial pleading seeking
13an adjudication of parentage in the circuit court of this
14State.
15 (h) "Determination of parentage" means the establishment
16of the parent-child relationship by the signing of a voluntary
17acknowledgment under Article 3 of this Act or adjudication by
18the court or as authorized under Article X of the Illinois
19Public Aid Code.
20 (i) "Donor" means an individual who contributes a gamete or
21gametes used for assisted reproduction, whether or not for
22consideration. The term does not include:
23 (1) an intended parent who provides sperm, or an
24 intended parent who provides eggs, to be used for assisted
25 reproduction by the intended parent or parents;
26 (2) a woman who gives birth to a child by means of

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1 assisted reproduction, except as otherwise provided in the
2 Gestational Surrogacy Act or a valid gestational surrogacy
3 contract; or
4 (3) a parent under Article 7 of this Act, or an
5 intended parent under the Gestational Surrogacy Act or a
6 valid gestational surrogacy contract.
7 (j) "Ethnic or racial group" means, for purposes of genetic
8testing, a recognized group that an individual identifies as
9all or part of the individual's ancestry or that is so
10identified by other information.
11 (k) "Gamete" means either a sperm or an egg.
12 (l) "Genetic testing" means an analysis of genetic markers
13to exclude or identify a man as the father or a woman as the
14mother of a child as provided in Article 4 of this Act.
15 (m) "Gestational mother" means an adult woman who gives
16birth to a child pursuant to the terms of a valid gestational
17surrogacy contract.
18 (n) "Parent" means an individual who has established a
19parent-child relationship under Section 201 of this Act.
20 (o) "Parent-child relationship" means the legal
21relationship between a child and a parent of the child.
22 (p) "Presumed parent" means an individual who, by operation
23of law under Section 204 of this Act, is recognized as the
24parent of a child until that status is rebutted or confirmed in
25a judicial or administrative proceeding.
26 (q) "Probability of paternity" means the measure, for the

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1ethnic or racial group to which the alleged father belongs, of
2the probability that the man in question is the father of the
3child, compared with a random, unrelated man of the same ethnic
4or racial group, expressed as a percentage incorporating the
5combined paternity index and a prior probability.
6 (r) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a
7tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other
8medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
9 (s) "Signatory" means an individual who authenticates a
10record and is bound by its terms.
11 (t) "State" means a state of the United States, the
12District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin
13Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the
14jurisdiction of the United States.
15 (u) "Substantially similar legal relationship" means a
16relationship recognized in this State under Section 60 of the
17Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act.
18 (v) "Support-enforcement agency" means a public official
19or agency authorized to seek:
20 (1) enforcement of support orders or laws relating to
21 the duty of support;
22 (2) establishment or modification of child support;
23 (3) determination of parentage; or
24 (4) location of child-support obligors and their
25 income and assets.

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1 Section 104. Scope of Act; choice of law; other legal
2rights and duties preserved.
3 (a) This Act applies to determination of parentage in this
4State.
5 (b) The court shall apply the law of this State to
6adjudicate the parent-child relationship. The applicable law
7does not depend on:
8 (1) the place of birth of the child; or
9 (2) the past or present residence of the child.
10 (c) This Act does not create, enlarge, abrogate, or
11diminish parental rights or duties under other laws of this
12State, including the common law.
13 Section 105. Authority to establish parentage. The circuit
14courts are authorized to establish parentage under this Act.
15The Department of Healthcare and Family Services may make
16administrative determinations of paternity and nonpaternity in
17accordance with Section 10-17.7 of the Illinois Public Aid
18Code. Such administrative determinations shall have the full
19force and effect of court judgments entered under this Act.
20 Section 106. Protection of participants. Proceedings under
21this Act are subject to other law of this State governing the
22health, safety, privacy, and liberty of a child or other
23individual who could be jeopardized by disclosure of
24identifying information, including address, telephone number,

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1place of employment, social security number, and the child's
2day-care facility and school.
3 Section 107. Applicability. Insofar as practicable, the
4provisions of this Act applicable to the father and child
5relationship shall apply to the mother and child relationship
6including, but not limited to, the obligation to support.
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ARTICLE 2. PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
8 Section 201. Establishment of parent-child relationship.
9 (a) The parent-child relationship is established between a
10woman and a child by:
11 (1) the woman having given birth to the child, except
12 as otherwise provided in a valid gestational surrogacy
13 contract;
14 (2) an adjudication of the woman's parentage;
15 (3) adoption of the child by the woman;
16 (4) the woman having consented to assisted
17 reproduction by a woman under Article 7 of this Act which
18 resulted in the birth of the child; or
19 (5) a valid gestational surrogacy contract under the
20 Gestational Surrogacy Act or other law.
21 (b) The parent-child relationship is established between a
22man and a child by:
23 (1) an unrebutted presumption of the man's parentage of

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1 the child under Section 204 of this Act;
2 (2) an effective voluntary acknowledgment of paternity
3 by the man under Article 3 of this Act, unless the
4 acknowledgment has been rescinded or successfully
5 challenged;
6 (3) an adjudication of the man's parentage;
7 (4) adoption of the child by the man;
8 (5) the man having consented to assisted reproduction
9 by a woman under Article 7 of this Act which resulted in
10 the birth of the child; or
11 (6) a valid gestational surrogacy contract under the
12 Gestational Surrogacy Act or other law.
13 (c) Insofar as practicable, the provisions of this Act
14applicable to parent-child relationships shall apply equally
15to men and women as parents, including, but not limited to, the
16obligation to support.
17 Section 202. Parents' legal relationship. Every child has
18equal rights under the law regardless of the parents' legal
19relationship.
20 Section 203. Consequences of establishment of parentage. A
21parent-child relationship established under this Act applies
22for all purposes, except as otherwise specifically provided by
23other law of this State.

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1 Section 204. Presumption of parentage.
2 (a) A man is presumed to be the parent of a child if:
3 (1) he and the child's natural mother have entered into
4 a marriage, civil union, or substantially similar legal
5 relationship, even if the marriage, civil union, or
6 substantially similar legal relationship is or could be
7 declared invalid, and the child is born or conceived during
8 such marriage, civil union, or substantially similar legal
9 relationship; or
10 (2) after the child's birth, he and the child's natural
11 mother have entered into a marriage, civil union, or
12 substantially similar legal relationship, even if the
13 marriage, civil union, or substantially similar legal
14 relationship is or could be declared invalid, and he is
15 named, with his written consent, as the child's father on
16 the child's birth certificate.
17 (b) If 2 or more conflicting presumptions arise under this
18Section, the presumption which on the facts is founded on the
19weightier considerations of policy and logic, especially the
20policy of promoting the child's best interests, controls.
21 Section 205. Proceedings to declare the non-existence of
22the parent-child relationship.
23 (a) An action to declare the non-existence of the
24parent-child relationship may be brought by the child, the
25birth mother, or a man presumed to be the parent under Section

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1204 of this Act. Actions brought by the child, the birth
2mother, or a presumed parent shall be brought by verified
3complaint, which shall be designated a petition. After a
4presumption under Section 204 of this Act has been rebutted,
5parentage of the child by another man or woman may be
6established in the same action, if he or she has been made a
7party.
8 (b) An action to declare the non-existence of the
9parent-child relationship brought under subsection (a) of this
10Section shall be barred if brought later than 2 years after the
11petitioner knew or should have known of the relevant facts. The
122-year period for bringing an action to declare the
13non-existence of the parent-child relationship shall not
14extend beyond the date on which the child reaches the age of 18
15years. Failure to bring an action within 2 years shall not bar
16any party from asserting a defense in any action to declare the
17existence of the parent-child relationship.
18 (c) An action to declare the non-existence of the
19parent-child relationship may be brought subsequent to an
20adjudication of parentage in any judgment by the man
21adjudicated to be the parent pursuant to a presumption in
22Section 204 if, as a result of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
23testing, it is discovered that the man adjudicated to be the
24parent is not the father of the child. Actions brought by the
25adjudicated father shall be brought by verified petition. If,
26as a result of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing that is

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1admissible under Section 614 of this Act, the petitioner is
2determined not to be the father of the child, the adjudication
3of paternity and any orders regarding custody, parenting time,
4and future payments of support may be vacated.
5 (d) An action to declare the non-existence of the
6parent-child relationship brought under subsection (c) of this
7Section shall be barred if brought more than 2 years after the
8petitioner obtains actual knowledge of relevant facts. The
92-year period shall not apply to periods of time where the
10birth mother or the child refuses to submit to deoxyribonucleic
11acid (DNA) testing. The 2-year period for bringing an action to
12declare the non-existence of the parent-child relationship
13shall not extend beyond the date on which the child reaches the
14age of 18 years.
15 Section 206. Presumption; burden of proof. A person
16challenging a presumption under Section 204 of this Act may
17rebut the presumption with clear and convincing evidence.
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ARTICLE 3. VOLUNTARY ACKNOWLEDGMENT
19 Section 301. Voluntary acknowledgment. A parent-child
20relationship may be established voluntarily by the signing and
21witnessing of a voluntary acknowledgment in accordance with
22Section 12 of the Vital Records Act and Section 10-17.7 of the
23Illinois Public Aid Code. The voluntary acknowledgment shall

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1contain the last four digits of the social security numbers of
2the persons signing the voluntary acknowledgment; however,
3failure to include the social security numbers of the persons
4signing a voluntary acknowledgment does not invalidate the
5voluntary acknowledgment.
6 Section 302. Execution of voluntary acknowledgment.
7 (a) A voluntary acknowledgment described in Section 301 of
8this Act must:
9 (1) be in a record;
10 (2) be signed, or otherwise authenticated, under
11 penalty of perjury by the mother and by the man seeking to
12 establish his parentage;
13 (3) state that the child whose parentage is being
14 acknowledged:
15 (A) does not have a presumed parent, or has a
16 presumed parent whose full name is stated; and
17 (B) does not have another acknowledged or
18 adjudicated parent;
19 (4) be witnessed; and
20 (5) state that the signatories understand that the
21 acknowledgment is the equivalent of a judicial
22 adjudication of parentage of the child and that a challenge
23 to the acknowledgment is permitted only under limited
24 circumstances and is barred after 2 years.
25 (b) An acknowledgment is void if it:

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1 (1) states that another person is a presumed parent,
2 unless a denial signed or otherwise authenticated by the
3 presumed parent is filed with the Department of Healthcare
4 and Family Services, as provided by law;
5 (2) states that another person is an acknowledged or
6 adjudicated parent; or
7 (3) falsely denies the existence of a presumed,
8 acknowledged, or adjudicated parent of the child.
9 (c) A presumed father may sign or otherwise authenticate an
10acknowledgment.
11 Section 303. Denial of parentage. A presumed parent may
12sign a denial of parentage. The denial is valid only if:
13 (a) a voluntary acknowledgment described in Section 301 of
14this Act signed, or otherwise authenticated, by a man is filed
15pursuant to Section 305 of this Act;
16 (b) the denial is in a record, and is signed, or otherwise
17authenticated, under penalty of perjury; and
18 (c) the presumed parent has not previously:
19 (1) acknowledged his parentage, unless the previous
20 acknowledgment has been rescinded under Section 307 of this
21 Act or successfully challenged under Section 308 of this
22 Act; or
23 (2) been adjudicated to be the parent of the child.
24 Section 304. Rules for acknowledgment and denial of

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1parentage.
2 (a) An acknowledgment as described in Section 301 of this
3Act and a denial may be contained in a single document or may
4be signed in counterparts, and may be filed separately or
5simultaneously. If the acknowledgment and denial are both
6necessary, neither is valid until both are filed.
7 (b) An acknowledgment or a denial may be signed before the
8birth of the child.
9 (c) Subject to subsection (a), an acknowledgment or denial
10takes effect on the birth of the child or the filing of the
11document with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services,
12as provided by law, whichever occurs later.
13 (d) An acknowledgment or denial signed by a minor is valid
14if it is otherwise in compliance with this Act.
15 Section 305. Effect of acknowledgment or denial of
16parentage.
17 (a) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 307 and 308 of
18this Act, a valid acknowledgment filed with the Department of
19Healthcare and Family Services, as provided by law, is
20equivalent to an adjudication of the parentage of a child and
21confers upon the acknowledged father all of the rights and
22duties of a parent.
23 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
24parentage established in accordance with Section 301 of this
25Act has the full force and effect of a judgment entered under

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1this Act and serves as a basis for seeking a child support
2order without any further proceedings to establish parentage.
3 (c) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 307 and 308 of
4this Act, a valid denial by a presumed parent filed with the
5Department of Healthcare and Family Services, as provided by
6law, in conjunction with a voluntary acknowledgment, is
7equivalent to an adjudication of the nonparentage of the
8presumed parent and discharges the presumed parent from all
9rights and duties of a parent.
10 Section 306. No filing fee. The Department of Healthcare
11and Family Services, as provided by law, may not charge a fee
12for filing a voluntary acknowledgment or denial.
13 Section 307. Proceeding for rescission. A signatory may
14rescind a voluntary acknowledgment or denial by filing a signed
15and witnessed rescission with the Department of Healthcare and
16Family Services as provided in Section 12 of the Vital Records
17Act, before the earlier of:
18 (a) 60 days after the effective date of the acknowledgment
19or denial, as provided in Section 304 of this Act; or
20 (b) the date of a judicial or administrative proceeding
21relating to the child (including a proceeding to establish a
22support order) in which the signatory is a party.
23 Section 308. Challenge after expiration of period for

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1rescission. After the period for rescission under Section 307
2of this Act has expired, a signatory of a voluntary
3acknowledgment or denial may commence a proceeding to challenge
4the acknowledgment or denial only as provided in Section 309 of
5this Act.
6 Section 309. Procedure for challenge.
7 (a) A voluntary acknowledgment and any related denial may
8be challenged only on the basis of fraud, duress, or material
9mistake of fact by filing a verified petition under this
10Section within 2 years after the effective date of the
11acknowledgment or denial, as provided in Section 304 of this
12Act. Time during which the person challenging the
13acknowledgment or denial is under legal disability or duress or
14the ground for relief is fraudulently concealed shall be
15excluded in computing the period of 2 years.
16 (b) The verified complaint, which shall be designated a
17petition, shall be filed in the county where a proceeding
18relating to the child was brought, such as a support proceeding
19or, if none exists, in the county where the child resides.
20Every signatory to the voluntary acknowledgment and any related
21denial must be made a party to a proceeding to challenge the
22acknowledgment or denial. The party challenging the
23acknowledgment or denial shall have the burden of proof. The
24burden of proof to challenge a voluntary acknowledgment is
25clear and convincing evidence.

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1 (c) For the purpose of a challenge to an acknowledgment or
2denial, a signatory submits to personal jurisdiction of this
3State by signing the acknowledgment and any related denial,
4effective upon the filing of the acknowledgment and any related
5denial with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services,
6as provided in Section 12 of the Vital Records Act.
7 (d) Except for good cause shown, during the pendency of a
8proceeding to challenge an acknowledgment or denial, the court
9may not suspend the legal responsibilities of a signatory
10arising from the acknowledgment, including the duty to pay
11child support.
12 (e) At the conclusion of a proceeding to challenge an
13acknowledgment or denial, the court shall order the Department
14of Public Health to amend the birth record of the child, if
15appropriate. A copy of an order entered at the conclusion of a
16proceeding to challenge shall be provided to the Department of
17Healthcare and Family Services.
18 Section 310. Ratification barred. A court or
19administrative agency conducting a judicial or administrative
20proceeding is not required or permitted to ratify an
21unchallenged acknowledgment described in Section 301 of this
22Act.
23 Section 311. Full faith and credit. A court of this State
24shall give full faith and credit to a valid acknowledgment or

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1denial of parentage effective in another state if the
2acknowledgment or denial has been signed and is otherwise in
3compliance with the law of the other state.
4 Section 312. Forms for acknowledgment and denial of
5parentage.
6 (a) To facilitate compliance with this Article, the
7Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall prescribe
8forms for the acknowledgment and the denial of parentage and
9for the rescission of acknowledgment or denial consistent with
10Section 307 of this Act.
11 (b) A voluntary acknowledgment or denial of parentage is
12not affected by a later modification of the prescribed form.
13 Section 313. Release of information. The Department of
14Healthcare and Family Services may release information
15relating to the acknowledgment described in Section 301 of this
16Act, or the related denial, to a signatory of the
17acknowledgment or denial; to the child's guardian, the
18emancipated child, or the legal representatives of those
19individuals; to appropriate federal agencies; and to courts and
20appropriate agencies of this State or another state.
21 Section 314. Adoption of rules. The Department of Public
22Health and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services may
23adopt rules to implement this Article.

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ARTICLE 4. GENETIC TESTING
2 Section 401. Proceeding authorized. As soon as
3practicable, a court or an administrative hearing officer in an
4Expedited Child Support System may, and upon the request of a
5party except as provided in Section 610 of this Act, or of the
6child, shall order or direct the mother, child, and alleged
7father to submit to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing to
8determine inherited characteristics. If any party refuses to
9submit to genetic testing, the court may resolve the question
10of paternity against that party or enforce its order if the
11rights of others and the interests of justice so require.
12 Section 402. Requirements for genetic testing.
13 (a) The genetic testing shall be conducted by an expert
14qualified as an examiner of blood or tissue types and appointed
15by the court. The expert shall determine the genetic testing
16procedures. However, any interested party, for good cause
17shown, in advance of the scheduled genetic testing, may request
18a hearing to object to the qualifications of the expert or the
19genetic testing procedures. The expert appointed by the court
20shall testify at the pre-test hearing at the expense of the
21party requesting the hearing, except for an indigent party as
22provided in Section 405 of this Act. An expert not appointed by
23the court shall testify at the pre-test hearing at the expense

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1of the party retaining the expert. Inquiry into an expert's
2qualifications at the pre-test hearing shall not affect either
3party's right to have the expert qualified at trial.
4 (b) Genetic testing must be of a type reasonably relied
5upon by experts in the field of genetic testing and performed
6in a testing laboratory accredited by the American Association
7of Blood Banks or a successor to its functions.
8 (c) A specimen used in genetic testing may consist of one
9or more samples, or a combination of samples, of blood, buccal
10cells, bone, hair, or other body tissue or fluid.
11 (d) The testing laboratory shall determine the databases
12from which to select frequencies for use in calculation of the
13probability of paternity based on the ethnic or racial group of
14an individual or individuals. If there is disagreement as to
15the testing laboratory's choice, the following rules apply:
16 (1) The individual objecting may require the testing
17 laboratory, within 30 days after receipt of the report of
18 the genetic testing, to recalculate the probability of
19 paternity using an ethnic or racial group different from
20 that used by the laboratory.
21 (2) The individual objecting to the testing
22 laboratory's initial choice shall:
23 (A) if the frequencies are not available to the
24 testing laboratory for the ethnic or racial group
25 requested, provide the requested frequencies compiled
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1 (B) engage another testing laboratory to perform
2 the calculations.
3 (e) If, after recalculation using a different ethnic or
4racial group, genetic testing does not reputably identify a man
5as the father of a child, an individual who has been tested may
6be required to submit to additional genetic testing.
7 Section 403. Genetic test results.
8 (a) The expert shall prepare a written report of the
9genetic test results. If the genetic test results show that the
10alleged father is not excluded, the report shall contain
11statistics based upon the statistical formula of combined
12paternity index (CPI) and the probability of paternity as
13determined by the probability of exclusion (Random Man Not
14Excluded = RMNE). The expert may be called by the court as a
15witness to testify to his or her findings and, if called, shall
16be subject to cross-examination by the parties. If the genetic
17test results show that the alleged father is not excluded, any
18party may demand that other experts, qualified as examiners of
19blood or tissue types, perform independent genetic testing
20under order of court, including, but not limited to, blood
21types or other testing of genetic markers. The results of the
22genetic testing may be offered into evidence. The number and
23qualifications of the experts shall be determined by the court.
24 (b) Documentation of the chain of custody of the blood or
25tissue samples, accompanied by an affidavit or certification in

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1accordance with Section 1-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
2is competent evidence to establish the chain of custody.
3 (c) The report of the genetic test results prepared by the
4appointed expert shall be made by affidavit or by certification
5as provided in Section 1-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure and
6shall be mailed to all parties. A proof of service shall be
7filed with the court. The verified report shall be admitted
8into evidence at trial without foundation testimony or other
9proof of authenticity or accuracy, unless a written motion
10challenging the admissibility of the report is filed by either
11party within 28 days of receipt of the report, in which case
12expert testimony shall be required. A party may not file such a
13motion challenging the admissibility of the report later than
1428 days before commencement of trial. Before trial, the court
15shall determine whether the motion is sufficient to deny
16admission of the report by verification. Failure to make that
17timely motion constitutes a waiver of the right to object to
18admission by verification and shall not be grounds for a
19continuance of the hearing to establish paternity.
20 Section 404. Effect of genetic testing. Genetic testing
21taken under this Article shall have the following effect:
22 (a) If the court finds that the conclusion of the expert or
23experts, as disclosed by the evidence based upon the genetic
24testing, is that the alleged father is not the parent of the
25child, the question of paternity shall be resolved accordingly.

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1 (b) If the experts disagree in their findings or
2conclusions, the question shall be weighed with other competent
3evidence of paternity.
4 (c) If the genetic testing results indicate that the
5alleged father is not excluded and that the combined paternity
6index is at least 1,000 to 1, and there is at least a 99.9%
7probability of paternity, the alleged father is presumed to be
8the father, and this evidence shall be admitted.
9 (d) A man identified under subsection (c) of this Section
10as the father of the child may rebut the genetic testing
11results by other genetic testing satisfying the requirements of
12this Article which:
13 (1) excludes the man as a genetic father of the child;
14 or
15 (2) identifies another man as the possible father of
16 the child.
17 (e) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, if more
18than one man is identified by genetic testing as the possible
19father of the child, the court shall order them to submit to
20further genetic testing to identify the genetic father.
21 Section 405. Cost of genetic testing. The expense of the
22genetic testing shall be paid by the party who requests the
23genetic testing, except that the court may apportion the costs
24between the parties, upon request. When the genetic testing is
25requested by the party seeking to establish paternity and that

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1party is found to be indigent by the court, the expense shall
2be paid by the public agency providing representation; except
3that where a public agency is not providing representation, the
4expense shall be paid by the county in which the action is
5brought. When the genetic testing is ordered by the court on
6its own motion or is requested by the alleged or presumed
7father and that father is found to be indigent by the court,
8the expense shall be paid by the county in which the action is
9brought. Any part of the expense may be taxed as costs in the
10action, except that no costs may be taxed against a public
11agency that has not requested the genetic testing.
12 Section 406. Compensation of expert. The compensation of
13each expert witness appointed by the court shall be paid as
14provided in Section 405 of this Act. Any part of the payment
15may be taxed as costs in the action, except that no costs may
16be taxed against a public agency that has not requested the
17services of the expert witness.
18 Section 407. Independent genetic testing. Nothing in this
19Article shall prevent a party from obtaining genetic testing of
20his or her own blood or tissue independent of those ordered by
21the court or from presenting expert testimony interpreting
22those tests or any other blood tests ordered under this
23Article. Reports of all the independent tests, accompanied by
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1Code of Civil Procedure, and notice of any expert witnesses to
2be called to testify to the results of those tests shall be
3submitted to all parties at least 30 days before any hearing
4set to determine the issue of parentage.
5 Section 408. Additional persons to be tested.
6 (a) Subject to subsection (b), if a genetic-testing
7specimen is not available from a man who may be the father of a
8child, for good cause and under circumstances the court
9considers to be just, the court may order the following
10individuals to submit specimens for genetic testing:
11 (1) the parents of the man;
12 (2) brothers and sisters of the man;
13 (3) other children of the man and their mothers; and
14 (4) other relatives of the man necessary to complete
15 genetic testing.
16 (b) Issuance of an order under this Section requires a
17finding that a need for genetic testing outweighs the
18legitimate interests of the individual sought to be tested, and
19in no event shall an order be issued until the individual is
20joined as a party and given notice as required under the Code
21of Civil Procedure.
22
ARTICLE 5. TEMPORARY RELIEF
23 Section 501. Temporary orders.

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1 (a) On a motion by a party and a showing of clear and
2convincing evidence of parentage, the court shall issue a
3temporary order for support of a child if the order is
4appropriate and the individual ordered to pay support is:
5 (1) a presumed parent of the child;
6 (2) petitioning to have parentage adjudicated;
7 (3) identified as the father through genetic testing
8 under Article 4 of this Act;
9 (4) an alleged father who has declined to submit to
10 genetic testing;
11 (5) shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the
12 child's father;
13 (6) the mother of the child; or
14 (7) anyone else determined to be the child's parent.
15 In determining the amount of a temporary child support
16award, the court shall use the guidelines and standards set
17forth in Sections 505 and 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage and
18Dissolution of Marriage Act.
19 (b) A temporary order may include provisions for custody
20and parenting time as provided by the Illinois Marriage and
21Dissolution of Marriage Act.
22 (c) Temporary orders issued under this Section shall not
23have prejudicial effect with respect to final support, custody,
24or parenting time orders.
25 Section 502. Injunctive relief.

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1 (a) In any action brought under this Act for the initial
2determination of parentage, custody or parenting time of a
3child, or for modification of a prior custody or parenting time
4order, the court, upon application of a party, may enjoin a
5party having physical possession or custody of a child from
6temporarily removing the child from this State pending the
7adjudication of the issues of parentage, custody, and parenting
8time. When deciding whether to enjoin removal of a child, or to
9order a party to return the child to this State, the court
10shall consider factors including, but not limited to:
11 (1) the extent of previous involvement with the child
12 by the party seeking to enjoin removal or to have the
13 absent party return the child to this State;
14 (2) the likelihood that parentage will be established;
15 and
16 (3) the impact on the financial, physical, and
17 emotional health of the party being enjoined from removing
18 the child or the party being ordered to return the child to
19 this State.
20 (b) A temporary restraining order or preliminary
21injunction under this Act shall be governed by the relevant
22provisions of Part 1 of Article XI of the Code of Civil
23Procedure.
24 (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of
25this Section, the court may decline to enjoin a domestic
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1child from temporarily or permanently removing the child from
2this State pending the adjudication of issues of custody or
3parenting time. In determining whether a person is a domestic
4violence victim, the court shall consider the following
5factors:
6 (1) a sworn statement by the person that the person has
7 good reason to believe that he or she is the victim of
8 domestic violence or stalking;
9 (2) a sworn statement that the person fears for his or
10 her safety or the safety of his or her children;
11 (3) evidence from police, court, or other government
12 agency records or files;
13 (4) documentation from a domestic violence program if
14 the person is alleged to be a victim of domestic violence;
15 (5) documentation from a legal, clerical, medical, or
16 other professional from whom the person has sought
17 assistance in dealing with the alleged domestic violence;
18 and
19 (6) any other evidence that supports the sworn
20 statements, such as a statement from any other individual
21 with knowledge of the circumstances that provides the basis
22 for the claim, or physical evidence of the domestic
23 violence.
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1 Section 601. Proceeding authorized. A civil proceeding may
2be maintained to adjudicate the parentage of a child. The
3proceeding is governed by the Code of Civil Procedure and
4Illinois Supreme Court Rules. Administrative proceedings
5adjudicating paternity shall be governed by Section 10-17.7 of
6the Illinois Public Aid Code.
7 Section 602. Standing. A complaint to adjudicate parentage
8shall be verified, shall be designated a petition, and shall
9name the person or persons alleged to be the parent of the
10child. Subject to Article 3 and Sections 607, 608, and 609 of
11this Act, a proceeding to adjudicate parentage may be
12maintained by:
13 (a) the child;
14 (b) the mother of the child;
15 (c) a pregnant woman;
16 (d) a man presumed or alleging himself to be the parent of
17the child;
18 (e) a woman alleging herself to be the parent of the child;
19 (f) the support-enforcement agency or other governmental
20agency authorized by other law;
21 (g) any person or public agency that has custody of, is
22providing financial support to, or has provided financial
23support to the child;
24 (h) the Department of Healthcare and Family Services if it
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1or if it is assisting with child support collections services;
2 (i) an authorized adoption agency or licensed
3child-placing agency;
4 (j) a representative authorized by law to act for an
5individual who would otherwise be entitled to maintain a
6proceeding but who is deceased, incapacitated, or a minor;
7 (k) an intended parent pursuant to the terms of a valid
8gestational surrogacy contract; or
9 (l) an individual who has consented or has allegedly
10consented to assisted reproduction pursuant to Article 7 of
11this Act.
12 Section 603. Subject matter and personal jurisdiction.
13 (a) The circuit courts of this State shall have
14jurisdiction of an action brought under this Act. In a civil
15action not brought under this Act, the provisions of this Act
16shall apply if parentage is at issue. The court may join any
17action under this Act with any other civil action in which this
18Act is applicable.
19 (b) An individual may not be adjudicated to be a parent
20unless the court has personal jurisdiction over the individual.
21 (c) A court of this State having jurisdiction to adjudicate
22parentage may exercise personal jurisdiction over a
23nonresident individual, or the guardian or conservator of the
24individual, if the conditions prescribed in Section 201 of the
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1 (d) Lack of jurisdiction over one individual does not
2preclude the court from making an adjudication of parentage
3binding on another individual over whom the court has personal
4jurisdiction.
5 Section 604. Venue.
6 (a) Venue for a proceeding to adjudicate parentage is any
7county of this State in which a party resides, or if the
8presumed or alleged father is deceased, in which a proceeding
9for probate or administration of the presumed or alleged
10father's estate has been commenced, or could be commenced.
11 (b) A child custody proceeding is commenced in the county
12where the child resides.
13 Section 605. Notice to presumed parent.
14 (a) In any action brought under Article 3 or Article 6 of
15this Act where the individual signing the petition for an order
16establishing the existence of the parent-child relationship by
17consent or the individual alleged to be the parent in a
18petition is different from an individual who is presumed to be
19parent of the child under Article 2 of this Act, a notice shall
20be served on the presumed parent in the same manner as
21summonses are served in other civil proceedings or, in lieu of
22personal service, service may be made as follows:
23 (1) The person requesting notice shall pay to the clerk
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1 the clerk of the circuit court an original and one copy of
2 a notice together with an affidavit setting forth the
3 presumed parent's last known address. The original notice
4 shall be retained by the clerk of the circuit court.
5 (2) The clerk of the circuit court shall promptly mail
6 to the presumed parent, at the address appearing in the
7 affidavit, the copy of the notice by certified mail, return
8 receipt requested. The envelope and return receipt shall
9 bear the return address of the clerk of the circuit court.
10 The receipt for certified mail shall state the name and
11 address of the addressee and the date of mailing and shall
12 be attached to the original notice.
13 (3) The return receipt, when returned to the clerk of
14 the circuit court, shall be attached to the original notice
15 and shall constitute proof of service.
16 (4) The clerk of the circuit court shall note the fact
17 of service in a permanent record.
18 (b) The notice shall read as follows:
19 "IN THE MATTER OF NOTICE TO .......... PRESUMED PARENT.
20 You have been identified as the presumed parent of
21......... , born on ......... The birth parent of the child is
22.........
23 An action is being brought to establish the parent-child
24relationship between the named child and a parent named by the
25person filing this action, .........
26 As the presumed parent, you have certain legal rights with

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1respect to the named child, including the right to notice of
2the filing of proceedings instituted for the establishment of
3parentage of the named child and, if named as a parent in a
4petition to establish parentage, the right to submit to, along
5with the birth parent and child, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
6tests to determine inherited characteristics, subject to
7Section 610 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014. If you wish
8to assert your rights with respect to the child named in this
9notice, you must file with the Clerk of this Circuit Court of
10......... County, Illinois, whose address is ........ , within
1130 days after the date of receipt of this notice, a declaration
12of parentage stating that you are, in fact, the parent of the
13named child and that you intend to assert your legal rights
14with respect to the child, or that you request to be notified
15of any further proceedings with respect to the parentage of the
16child.
17 If you do not file a declaration of parentage or a request
18for notice, then whatever legal rights you have with respect to
19the named child, including the right to notice of any future
20proceedings for the establishment of parentage of the child,
21may be terminated without any further notice to you. When your
22legal rights with respect to the named child are terminated,
23you will not be entitled to notice of any future proceedings.".
24 (c) The notice to a presumed parent under this Section in
25any action brought by a public agency shall be prepared and
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1of the circuit court shall be waived.
2 Section 606. Summons. The summons that is served on a
3respondent shall include the return date on or by which the
4respondent must appear and shall contain the following
5information, in a prominent place and in conspicuous language,
6in addition to the information required to be provided under
7the laws of this State: "If you do not appear as instructed in
8this summons, you may be required to support the child named in
9this petition until the child is at least 18 years old. You may
10also have to pay the pregnancy and delivery costs of the
11mother.".
12 Section 607. No limitation; child having no presumed,
13acknowledged, or adjudicated parent. A proceeding to
14adjudicate the parentage of a child having no presumed,
15acknowledged, or adjudicated parent may be commenced at any
16time, even after:
17 (a) the child becomes an adult, but only if the child
18initiates the proceeding; or
19 (b) an earlier proceeding to adjudicate parentage has been
20dismissed based on the application of a statute of limitations
21then in effect.
22 Section 608. Limitation; child having presumed parent.
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1103 of this Act, must commence an action to establish a
2parent-child relationship for a child having a presumed parent
3not later than 2 years after the petitioner knew or should have
4known of the relevant facts. The time the petitioner is under
5legal disability or duress or the ground for relief is
6fraudulently concealed shall be excluded in computing the
7period of 2 years.
8 (b) A proceeding seeking to declare the non-existence of
9the parent-child relationship between a child and the child's
10presumed father may be maintained at any time by a person
11described in Section 204 of this Act if the court determines
12that the presumed father and the mother of the child neither
13cohabited nor engaged in sexual intercourse with each other
14during the probable time of conception.
15 Section 609. Limitation; child having acknowledged or
16adjudicated parent.
17 (a) If a child has an acknowledged parent, a signatory to
18the acknowledgment described in Section 301 of this Act or
19related denial may commence a proceeding seeking to challenge
20the acknowledgment or denial or challenge the paternity of the
21child only within the time allowed under Section 309 of this
22Act.
23 (b) If a child has an acknowledged parent or an adjudicated
24parent, an individual, other than the child, who is neither a
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1and who seeks an adjudication of parentage of the child must
2commence a proceeding not later than 2 years after the
3effective date of the acknowledgment or adjudication.
4 (c) A proceeding under this Section is subject to the
5application of the principles of estoppel established in
6Section 610 of this Act.
7 Section 610. Authority to deny motion for genetic testing.
8 (a) In a proceeding to adjudicate the parentage of a child
9having a presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated parent, the
10court may deny a motion by a parent, presumed parent,
11acknowledged parent, adjudicated parent, or alleged parent
12seeking an order for genetic testing of the parents and child
13if the court determines that:
14 (1) the conduct of the parent, acknowledged parent,
15 adjudicated parent, or the presumed parent estops that
16 party from denying parentage;
17 (2) it would be inequitable to disprove the
18 parent-child relationship between the child and the
19 presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated parent; and
20 (3) it is in the child's best interests to deny genetic
21 testing, taking into account the following factors:
22 (A) the length of time between the current
23 proceeding to adjudicate parentage and the time that
24 the presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated parent was
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1 biological parent;
2 (B) the length of time during which the presumed,
3 acknowledged, or adjudicated parent has assumed the
4 role of parent of the child;
5 (C) the facts surrounding the presumed,
6 acknowledged, or adjudicated parent's discovery of his
7 or her possible nonparentage;
8 (D) the nature of the relationship between the
9 child and the presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated
10 parent;
11 (E) the age of the child;
12 (F) the harm that may result to the child if the
13 presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated parentage is
14 successfully disproved;
15 (G) the nature of the relationship between the
16 child and any alleged parent;
17 (H) the extent to which the passage of time reduces
18 the chances of establishing the parentage of another
19 person and a child support obligation in favor of the
20 child;
21 (I) other factors that may affect the equities
22 arising from the disruption of the parent-child
23 relationship between the child and the presumed,
24 acknowledged, or adjudicated parent or the chance of
25 other harm to the child; and
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1 equitable.
2 (b) In a proceeding involving the application of this
3Section, a minor or incapacitated child must be represented by
4a guardian ad litem, child's representative, or attorney for
5the child.
6 (c) If the court denies a motion seeking an order for
7genetic testing, it shall issue an order adjudicating the
8presumed parent to be the parent of the child.
9 Section 611. Joinder of proceedings.
10 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a
11proceeding to adjudicate parentage may be joined with a
12proceeding for adoption, termination of parental rights, child
13custody or parenting time, child support, dissolution of
14marriage or civil union, declaration of invalidity of marriage
15or civil union, legal separation, probate or administration of
16an estate, or other appropriate proceeding.
17 (b) A respondent may not join a proceeding described in
18subsection (a) with a proceeding to adjudicate parentage
19brought under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
20 Section 612. Proceeding before birth. A proceeding to
21establish parentage may be commenced before the birth of the
22child, but may not be concluded until after the birth of the
23child. The following actions may be taken before the birth of
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1 (a) service of process;
2 (b) the taking of depositions to perpetuate testimony; and
3 (c) except as prohibited by Article 4 of this Act,
4collection of specimens for genetic testing.
5 Section 613. Child as party; representation.
6 (a) A minor child is a permissible party, but is not a
7necessary party to a proceeding under this Article.
8 (b) The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem, child's
9representative, or attorney for the child to represent a minor
10or incapacitated child if the child is a party or the court
11finds that the interests of the child are not adequately
12represented.
13 Section 614. Admissibility of results of genetic testing;
14expenses.
15 (a) If a child has a presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated
16parent, the results of genetic testing are inadmissible to
17adjudicate parentage unless performed:
18 (1) with the consent of both the mother and the
19 presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated parent; or
20 (2) pursuant to an order of the court under Section 402
21 of this Act.
22 (b) Copies of bills for genetic testing and for prenatal
23and postnatal health care for the mother and child which are
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1date of a hearing are admissible to establish:
2 (1) the amount of the charges billed; and
3 (2) that the charges were reasonable, necessary, and
4 customary.
5 (c) Certified copies of the bills for costs incurred for
6pregnancy and childbirth shall be admitted into evidence at
7judicial or administrative proceedings without foundation
8testimony or other proof of authenticity or accuracy.
9 Section 615. Consequences of declining genetic testing.
10 (a) An order for genetic testing is enforceable through a
11proceeding for adjudication of contempt.
12 (b) If an individual whose parentage is being determined
13declines to submit to genetic testing ordered by the court or
14administrative agency, the court or administrative agency may
15adjudicate parentage contrary to the position of that
16individual.
17 (c) Genetic testing of the mother of a child is not a
18condition precedent to genetically testing the child and a man
19whose paternity is being determined. If the mother is
20unavailable or declines to submit to genetic testing, the court
21or administrative agency may order the genetic testing of the
22child and every man whose paternity is being adjudicated.
23 Section 616. Admission of parentage authorized.
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1may admit to the parentage of a child by filing a pleading to
2that effect or by admitting parentage under penalty of perjury
3when making an appearance or during a hearing.
4 (b) If the court finds that the admission of parentage
5satisfies the requirements of this Section and finds that there
6is no reason to question the admission, the court shall enter
7an order adjudicating the child to be the child of the person
8admitting parentage.
9 Section 617. Rules for adjudication of parentage. The court
10shall apply the following rules to adjudicate the parentage of
11a child:
12 (a) The parentage of a child having an adjudicated parent
13may be disproved only by admissible results of genetic testing,
14or other means, excluding that person as the parent of the
15child or identifying another person as the parent of the child.
16 (b) Unless the results of the genetic testing or other
17evidence are admitted to rebut other results of genetic
18testing, a person identified as the parent of a child under
19Section 404 of this Act may be adjudicated the parent of the
20child.
21 (c) If the court finds that genetic testing under Section
22404 neither identifies nor excludes a person as the parent of a
23child, the court may not dismiss the proceeding. In that event,
24the results of genetic testing and other evidence are
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1 (d) Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to
2rebut other results of genetic testing, a person excluded as
3the parent of a child by genetic testing may be adjudicated not
4to be the parent of the child.
5 Section 618. Pre-trial proceedings. As soon as practicable
6after an action to declare the existence or non-existence of
7the parent-child relationship has been brought, and the parties
8are at issue, the court may conduct a pre-trial conference.
9 Section 619. Jury prohibited. Trial by jury is not
10available under this Act.
11 Section 620. Order on default. The court may issue an order
12adjudicating the parentage of a person who is in default after
13service of process.
14 Section 621. Binding effect of determination of parentage.
15 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this
16Section, a determination of parentage is binding on:
17 (1) all signatories to an acknowledgment or denial as
18 provided in Article 3 of this Act; and
19 (2) all parties to an adjudication by a court acting
20 under circumstances that satisfy the jurisdictional
21 requirements of Section 201 of the Uniform Interstate
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1 (b) A child is not bound by a determination of parentage
2under this Act unless:
3 (1) the determination was based on an unrescinded
4 acknowledgment as provided in Article 3 of this Act and the
5 acknowledgment is consistent with the results of genetic
6 testing;
7 (2) the adjudication of parentage was based on a
8 finding consistent with the results of genetic testing and
9 the consistency is declared in the determination or is
10 otherwise shown;
11 (3) the child was a party or was represented in the
12 proceeding determining parentage by a guardian ad litem,
13 child's representative or attorney for the child.
14 (4) the child was no longer a minor at the time the
15 proceeding was initiated and was the moving party resulting
16 in the parentage determination.
17 (c) In a proceeding for dissolution of marriage, civil
18union, or substantially similar legal relationship,
19declaration of invalidity of marriage, civil union, or
20substantially similar legal relationship, or legal separation,
21the court is deemed to have made an adjudication of the
22parentage of a child if the court acts under circumstances that
23satisfy the jurisdictional requirements of Section 201 of the
24Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, and the final order:
25 (1) expressly identifies a child as a "child of the
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1 relationship", "issue of the marriage, civil union, or
2 substantially similar legal relationship", or uses similar
3 words indicating that a party to the marriage, civil union,
4 or substantially similar legal relationship is the parent
5 of the child; or
6 (2) provides for support of the child by the parties to
7 the marriage, civil union, or substantially similar legal
8 relationship, unless parentage is specifically disclaimed
9 in the order.
10 (d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this
11Section, a determination of parentage may be a defense in a
12subsequent proceeding seeking to adjudicate parentage by an
13individual who was not a party to the earlier proceeding.
14 (e) A party to an adjudication of parentage may challenge
15the adjudication only under the laws of this State relating to
16appeal, vacation of judgments, or other judicial review.
17 Section 622. Custody or visitation prohibited to men who
18father through sexual assault or sexual abuse.
19 (a) This Section applies to a person who has been found to
20be the father of a child under this Act and who:
21 (1) has been convicted of or who has pled guilty or
22 nolo contendere to a violation of Section 11-1.20 (criminal
23 sexual assault), Section 11-1.30 (aggravated criminal
24 sexual assault), Section 11-1.40 (predatory criminal
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1 sexual abuse), Section 11-1.60 (aggravated criminal sexual
2 abuse), Section 11-11 (sexual relations within families),
3 Section 12-13 (criminal sexual assault), Section 12-14
4 (aggravated criminal sexual assault), Section 12-14.1
5 (predatory criminal sexual assault of a child), Section
6 12-15 (criminal sexual abuse), or Section 12-16
7 (aggravated criminal sexual abuse) of the Criminal Code of
8 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or a similar statute in
9 another jurisdiction, for his conduct in fathering that
10 child; or
11 (2) at a fact-finding hearing, is found by clear and
12 convincing evidence to have committed an act of
13 non-consensual sexual penetration for his conduct in
14 fathering that child.
15 (b) A person described in subsection (a) shall not be
16entitled to custody of or visitation with that child without
17the consent of the child's mother or guardian. If the person
18described in subsection (a) is also the guardian of the child,
19he does not have the authority to consent to visitation or
20custody under this Section. If the mother of the child is a
21minor, and the person described in subsection (a) is also the
22father or guardian of the mother, then he does not have the
23authority to consent to custody or visits.
24 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
25nothing in this Section shall be construed to relieve the
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1maintenance obligations to the child under this Act. The
2child's mother or guardian may decline support and maintenance
3obligations from the father.
4 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the father
5described in subsection (a) of this Section is not entitled to
6any inheritance or other rights from the child without the
7consent of the child's mother or guardian.
8 (e) Notwithstanding any provision of the Illinois Marriage
9and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the parent, grandparent,
10great-grandparent, or sibling of the person described in
11subsection (a) of this Section does not have standing to bring
12an action requesting custody or visitation with the child
13without the consent of the child's mother or guardian.
14 (f) A petition under this Section may be filed by the
15child's mother or guardian either as an affirmative petition in
16circuit court or as an affirmative defense in any proceeding
17filed by the person described in subsection (a) of this Section
18regarding the child.
19
ARTICLE 7. CHILD OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
20 Section 701. Scope of Article. This Article does not apply
21to the birth of a child conceived by means of sexual
22intercourse or as a result of a valid gestational surrogacy
23contract under the Gestational Surrogacy Act or other law.

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1 Section 702. Parental status of donor. Except as provided
2in this Act, a donor is not a parent of a child conceived by
3means of assisted reproduction.
4 Section 703. Parentage of a child of assisted reproduction.
5A person who provides gametes for, or consents to, assisted
6reproduction by a woman as provided in Section 704 of this Act
7with the intent to be the parent of her child is a parent of the
8resulting child.
9 Section 704. Consent to assisted reproduction.
10 (a) Consent by an individual who intends to be a parent of
11a child born to a woman must be in a writing signed by the woman
12and the individual consenting to be the parent. A writing
13includes a certificate of birth naming both intended parents or
14a written ratification of a prior oral agreement to assisted
15reproduction.
16 (b) Failure to establish the consent required by subsection
17(a) of this Section, before or after the birth of the child,
18does not preclude a presumption under Section 204 of this Act.
19 (c) In order to be valid, both parties signing a consent
20under this Section must be at least 18 years of age at the time
21the writing is executed.
22 (d) A consent may not be entered that would result in the
23birth of a child created by sperm and eggs of parties who are
24blood relatives of the first degree.

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1 Section 705. Effect of petition or withdrawal of consent.
2 (a) If a petition for legal separation or for the
3dissolution or declaration of invalidity of a marriage, civil
4union, or substantially similar legal relationship is filed and
5properly served or notice is given of the filing of the
6petition to the other party before implantation of existing
7gametes or an embryo or embryos, then consent to assisted
8reproduction shall be treated as being withdrawn unless the
9party and the woman, after the filing of the petition or the
10giving of notice of the filing of the petition to the other
11party, sign a new writing consenting to the assisted
12reproduction or ratify, in writing, a prior written consent.
13 (b) Consent to assisted reproduction may be withdrawn by an
14individual in a writing given with proper notice to the other
15party at any time before implantation of the gametes or an
16embryo or embryos. An individual who withdraws consent under
17this Section is not a parent of any resulting child.
18 Section 706. Parental status of deceased individual. If an
19individual does not consent in a writing to be a parent by
20assisted reproduction after death and dies before the
21implantation of gametes or an embryo or embryos, the deceased
22individual is not a parent of the resulting child.
23 Section 707. Burden of proof. A consent executed under

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1Section 704 of this Act or a withdrawal of consent under
2Section 705 of this Act must be proven by clear and convincing
3evidence.
4
ARTICLE 8. SUPPORT AND JUDGMENT
5 Section 801. Child support orders.
6 (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, pending
7the outcome of a judicial determination of parentage, the court
8shall issue an order for child support upon motion by a party
9and a showing of clear and convincing evidence of parentage. In
10determining the amount of the child support award, the court
11shall use the guidelines and standards set forth in Sections
12505 and 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
13Marriage Act.
14 (b) Any new or existing support order entered by the court
15under this Section shall be deemed to be a series of judgments
16against the person obligated to pay support thereunder, each
17judgment to be in the amount of each payment or installment of
18support and each judgment to be deemed entered as of the date
19the corresponding payment or installment becomes due under the
20terms of the support order. Each judgment shall have the full
21force, effect, and attributes of any other judgment of this
22State, including the ability to be enforced. A judgment under
23this Section is subject to modification or termination only in
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1Dissolution of Marriage Act. Notwithstanding any other state or
2local law to the contrary, a lien arises by operation of law
3against the real and personal property of the noncustodial
4parent for each installment of overdue support owed by the
5noncustodial parent.
6 (c) An order for support, when entered or modified, shall
7include a provision requiring the non-custodial parent to
8notify the court and, in cases in which a party is receiving
9child support enforcement services under Article X of the
10Illinois Public Aid Code, the Department of Healthcare and
11Family Services, within 7 days: (i) of the name and address of
12any new employer of the non-custodial parent; (ii) whether the
13non-custodial parent has access to health insurance coverage
14through the employer or other group coverage and, if so, of the
15policy name and number and the names of adults and initials of
16minors covered under the policy; and (iii) of any new
17residential or mailing address or telephone number of the
18non-custodial parent. In any subsequent action to enforce a
19support order, upon a sufficient showing that a diligent effort
20has been made to ascertain the location of the non-custodial
21parent, service of process or provision of notice necessary in
22the case may be made at the last known address of the
23non-custodial parent in any manner expressly provided by this
24Act or the Code of Civil Procedure, and shall be sufficient for
25purposes of due process.
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1current support obligation terminates. The termination date
2shall be no earlier than the date on which the child covered by
3the order will attain the age of 18. However, if the child will
4not graduate from high school until after attaining the age of
518, then the termination date shall be no earlier than the
6earlier of the date on which the child's high school graduation
7will occur or the date on which the child will attain the age
8of 19. The order for support shall state that the termination
9date does not apply to any arrearage that may remain unpaid on
10that date. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to
11prevent the court from modifying the order or terminating the
12order in the event the child is otherwise emancipated.
13 (e) If there is an unpaid arrearage or delinquency (as
14those terms are defined in the Income Withholding for Support
15Act) equal to at least one month's support obligation on the
16termination date stated in the order for support or, if there
17is no termination date stated in the order, on the date the
18child attains the age of majority or is otherwise emancipated,
19the periodic amount required to be paid for current support of
20that child immediately prior to that date shall automatically
21continue to be an obligation, not as current support but as
22periodic payment toward satisfaction of the unpaid arrearage or
23delinquency. The periodic payment shall be in addition to any
24periodic payment previously required for satisfaction of the
25arrearage or delinquency. The total periodic amount to be paid
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1enforced and collected by any method provided by law for the
2enforcement and collection of child support including, but not
3limited to, income withholding under the Income Withholding for
4Support Act. Each order for support entered or modified must
5contain a statement notifying the parties of the requirements
6of this subsection. Failure to include the statement in the
7order for support does not affect the validity of the order or
8the operation of the provisions of this subsection with regard
9to the order. This subsection shall not be construed to prevent
10or affect the establishment or modification of an order for the
11support of a minor child or the establishment or modification
12of an order for the support of a non-minor child or educational
13expenses under Section 513 of the Illinois Marriage and
14Dissolution of Marriage Act.
15 (f) An order entered under this Section shall include a
16provision requiring the obligor to report to the obligee and to
17the clerk of the circuit court within 7 days each time the
18obligor obtains new employment, and each time the obligor's
19employment is terminated for any reason. The report shall be in
20writing and shall, in the case of new employment, include the
21name and address of the new employer. Failure to report new
22employment or the termination of current employment, if coupled
23with nonpayment of support for a period in excess of 60 days,
24is indirect criminal contempt. For an obligor arrested for
25failure to report new employment, bond shall be set in the
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1the period of unreported employment. An order entered under
2this Section shall also include a provision requiring the
3obligor and obligee parents to advise each other of a change in
4residence within 5 days of the change except when the court
5finds that the physical, mental, or emotional health of a party
6or that of a minor child, or both, would be seriously
7endangered by disclosure of the party's address.
8 Section 802. Judgment.
9 (a) The court shall issue an order adjudicating whether a
10person alleged or claiming to be the parent is the parent of
11the child. An order adjudicating parentage must identify the
12child by initials and year of birth.
13 The court may assess filing fees, reasonable attorney's
14fees, fees for genetic testing, other costs, necessary travel
15expenses, and other reasonable expenses incurred in a
16proceeding under this Act. The court may award attorney's fees,
17which may be paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the
18order in the attorney's own name. The court may not assess
19fees, costs, or expenses against the support-enforcement
20agency of this State or another state, except as provided by
21other law.
22 The judgment shall contain or explicitly reserve
23provisions concerning any duty and amount of child support and
24may contain provisions concerning the custody and guardianship
25of the child, parenting time privileges with the child, and the

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1furnishing of bond or other security for the payment of the
2judgment, which the court shall determine in accordance with
3the relevant factors set forth in the Illinois Marriage and
4Dissolution of Marriage Act and any other applicable law of
5this State, to guide the court in a finding in the best
6interests of the child. In determining custody, joint custody,
7removal, parenting time, parenting time interference, support
8for a non-minor disabled child, educational expenses for a
9non-minor child, and related post-judgment issues, the court
10shall apply the relevant standards of the Illinois Marriage and
11Dissolution of Marriage Act. Specifically, in determining the
12amount of a child support award, the court shall use the
13guidelines and standards set forth in subsection (a) of Section
14505 and in Section 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage and
15Dissolution of Marriage Act. The court shall order all child
16support payments, determined in accordance with such
17guidelines, to commence with the date summons is served. The
18level of current periodic support payments shall not be reduced
19because of payments set for the period prior to the date of
20entry of the support order.
21 (b) In an action brought within 2 years after a child's
22birth, the judgment or order may direct either parent to pay
23the reasonable expenses incurred by either parent or the
24Department of Healthcare and Family Services related to the
25mother's pregnancy and the delivery of the child.
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1of custody, the establishment of a child support obligation or
2of parenting time rights in one parent shall be considered a
3judgment granting custody to the other parent. If the parentage
4judgment contains no such provisions, custody shall be presumed
5to be with the mother; however, the presumption shall not apply
6if the father has had physical custody for at least 6 months
7prior to the date that the mother seeks to enforce custodial
8rights.
9 (d) The court, if necessary to protect and promote the best
10interests of the child, may set aside a portion of the
11separately held estates of the parties in a separate fund or
12trust for the support, education, physical and mental health,
13and general welfare of a minor or mentally or physically
14disabled child of the parties.
15 (e) The court may order child support payments to be made
16for a period prior to the commencement of the action. In
17determining whether and to what extent the payments shall be
18made for the prior period, the court shall consider all
19relevant facts, including but not limited to:
20 (1) The factors for determining the amount of support
21 specified in the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
22 Marriage Act.
23 (2) The father's prior knowledge of the fact and
24 circumstances of the child's birth.
25 (3) The father's prior willingness or refusal to help
26 raise or support the child.

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1 (4) The extent to which the mother or the public agency
2 bringing the action previously informed the father of the
3 child's needs or attempted to seek or require his help in
4 raising or supporting the child.
5 (5) The reasons the mother or the public agency did not
6 file the action earlier.
7 (6) The extent to which the father would be prejudiced
8 by the delay in bringing the action.
9 For purposes of determining the amount of child support to
10be paid for the period before the date the order for current
11child support is entered, there is a rebuttable presumption
12that the father's net income for the prior period was the same
13as his net income at the time the order for current child
14support is entered.
15 If (i) the non-custodial parent was properly served with a
16request for discovery of financial information relating to the
17non-custodial parent's ability to provide child support; (ii)
18the non-custodial parent failed to comply with the request,
19despite having been ordered to do so by the court; and (iii)
20the non-custodial parent is not present at the hearing to
21determine support despite having received proper notice, then
22any relevant financial information concerning the
23non-custodial parent's ability to provide child support that
24was obtained pursuant to subpoena and proper notice shall be
25admitted into evidence without the need to establish any
26further foundation for its admission.

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1 (f) A new or existing support order entered by the court
2under this Section shall be deemed to be a series of judgments
3against the person obligated to pay support thereunder, each
4judgment to be in the amount of each payment or installment of
5support and each judgment to be deemed entered as of the date
6the corresponding payment or installment becomes due under the
7terms of the support order. Each judgment shall have the full
8force, effect, and attributes of any other judgment of this
9State, including the ability to be enforced. A judgment under
10this Section is subject to modification or termination only in
11accordance with Section 510 of the Illinois Marriage and
12Dissolution of Marriage Act. Notwithstanding any State or local
13law to the contrary, a lien arises by operation of law against
14the real and personal property of the noncustodial parent for
15each installment of overdue support owed by the noncustodial
16parent.
17 (g) If the judgment or order of the court is at variance
18with the child's birth certificate, the court shall order that
19a new birth certificate be issued under the Vital Records Act.
20 (h) On the request of both parents, the court shall order a
21change in the child's name.
22 (i) After hearing evidence, the court may stay payment of
23support during the period of the father's minority or period of
24disability.
25 (j) If, upon a showing of proper service, the father fails
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1court may proceed to hear the cause upon testimony of the
2mother or other parties taken in open court and shall enter a
3judgment by default. The court may reserve any order as to the
4amount of child support until the father has received notice,
5by regular mail, of a hearing on the matter.
6 (k) An order for support, when entered or modified, shall
7include a provision requiring the non-custodial parent to
8notify the court and, in cases in which a party is receiving
9child support enforcement services under Article X of the
10Illinois Public Aid Code, the Department of Healthcare and
11Family Services, within 7 days: (i) of the name and address of
12any new employer of the non-custodial parent; (ii) whether the
13non-custodial parent has access to health insurance coverage
14through the employer or other group coverage and, if so, of the
15policy name and number and the names of adults and initials of
16minors covered under the policy; and (iii) of any new
17residential or mailing address or telephone number of the
18non-custodial parent. In a subsequent action to enforce a
19support order, upon a sufficient showing that a diligent effort
20has been made to ascertain the location of the non-custodial
21parent, service of process or provision of notice necessary in
22the case may be made at the last known address of the
23non-custodial parent in any manner expressly provided by this
24Act or the Code of Civil Procedure, and shall be sufficient for
25purposes of due process.
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1current support obligation terminates. The termination date
2shall be no earlier than the date on which the child covered by
3the order will attain the age of 18. However, if the child will
4not graduate from high school until after attaining the age of
518, then the termination date shall be no earlier than the
6earlier of the date on which the child's high school graduation
7will occur or the date on which the child will attain the age
8of 19. The order for support shall state that the termination
9date does not apply to any arrearage that may remain unpaid on
10that date. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to
11prevent the court from modifying the order or terminating the
12order in the event the child is otherwise emancipated.
13 (m) If there is an unpaid arrearage or delinquency (as
14those terms are defined in the Income Withholding for Support
15Act) equal to at least one month's support obligation on the
16termination date stated in the order for support or, if there
17is no termination date stated in the order, on the date the
18child attains the age of majority or is otherwise emancipated,
19the periodic amount required to be paid for current support of
20that child immediately prior to that date shall automatically
21continue to be an obligation, not as current support but as
22periodic payment toward satisfaction of the unpaid arrearage or
23delinquency. The periodic payment shall be in addition to any
24periodic payment previously required for satisfaction of the
25arrearage or delinquency. The total periodic amount to be paid
26toward satisfaction of the arrearage or delinquency may be

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1enforced and collected by any method provided by law for
2enforcement and collection of child support, including but not
3limited to income withholding under the Income Withholding for
4Support Act. Each order for support entered or modified must
5contain a statement notifying the parties of the requirements
6of this subsection. Failure to include the statement in the
7order for support does not affect the validity of the order or
8the operation of the provisions of this subsection with regard
9to the order. This subsection shall not be construed to prevent
10or affect the establishment or modification of an order for
11support of a minor child or the establishment or modification
12of an order for support of a non-minor child or educational
13expenses under Section 513 of the Illinois Marriage and
14Dissolution of Marriage Act.
15 (n) An order entered under this Section shall include a
16provision requiring the obligor to report to the obligee and to
17the clerk of court within 7 days each time the obligor obtains
18new employment, and each time the obligor's employment is
19terminated for any reason. The report shall be in writing and
20shall, in the case of new employment, include the name and
21address of the new employer. Failure to report new employment
22or the termination of current employment, if coupled with
23nonpayment of support for a period in excess of 60 days, is
24indirect criminal contempt. For an obligor arrested for failure
25to report new employment bond shall be set in the amount of the
26child support that should have been paid during the period of

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1unreported employment. An order entered under this Section
2shall also include a provision requiring the obligor and
3obligee parents to advise each other of a change in residence
4within 5 days of the change except when the court finds that
5the physical, mental, or emotional health of a party or that of
6a minor child, or both, would be seriously endangered by
7disclosure of the party's address.
8 Section 803. Information to State Case Registry.
9 (a) In this Section:
10 "Order for support", "obligor", "obligee", and "business
11day" are defined as set forth in the Income Withholding for
12Support Act.
13 "State Case Registry" means the State Case Registry
14established under Section 10-27 of the Illinois Public Aid
15Code.
16 (b) Each order for support entered or modified by the
17circuit court under this Act shall require that the obligor and
18obligee file with the clerk of the circuit court (i) the
19information required by this Section (and any other information
20required under Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act or
21by the federal Department of Health and Human Services) at the
22time of entry or modification of the order for support; and
23(ii) updated information within 5 business days of any change.
24Failure of the obligor or obligee to file or update the
25required information shall be punishable as in cases of

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1contempt. The failure shall not prevent the court from entering
2or modifying the order for support, however.
3 (c) The obligor shall file the following information: the
4obligor's name, year of birth, mailing address, and the last 4
5digits of the obligor's social security number. If either the
6obligor or the obligee receives child support enforcement
7services from the Department of Healthcare and Family Services
8under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code, the obligor
9shall also file the following information: the obligor's
10telephone number, the last 4 digits of the obligor's driver's
11license number, residential address (if different from the
12obligor's mailing address), and the name, address, and
13telephone number of the obligor's employer or employers.
14 (d) The obligee shall file the following information:
15 (1) The name of the obligee and the initials of the
16 child or children covered by the order for support.
17 (2) The years of birth of the obligee and the child or
18 children covered by the order for support.
19 (3) The last 4 digits of the social security numbers of
20 the obligee and the child or children covered by the order
21 for support.
22 (4) The obligee's mailing address.
23 (e) In cases in which the obligee receives child support
24enforcement services from the Department of Healthcare and
25Family Services under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
26Code, the order for support shall (i) require that the obligee

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1file the information required under subsection (d) with the
2Department of Healthcare and Family Services for inclusion in
3the State Case Registry, rather than file the information with
4the clerk, and (ii) require that the obligee include the
5following additional information:
6 (1) The obligee's telephone and the last 4 digits of
7 the obligee's driver's license number.
8 (2) The obligee's residential address, if different
9 from the obligee's mailing address.
10 (3) The name, address, and telephone number of the
11 obligee's employer or employers.
12 The order for support shall also require that the obligee
13update the information filed with the Department of Healthcare
14and Family Services within 5 business days of any change.
15 (f) The clerk of the circuit court shall provide the
16information filed under this Section, together with the court
17docket number and county in which the order for support was
18entered, to the State Case Registry within 5 business days
19after receipt of the information.
20 (g) In a case in which a party is receiving child support
21enforcement services under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
22Code, the clerk of the circuit court shall provide the
23following additional information to the State Case Registry
24within 5 business days after entry or modification of an order
25for support or request from the Department of Healthcare and
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1 (1) the amount of monthly or other periodic support
2 owed under the order for support and other amounts,
3 including arrearage, interest, or late payment penalties
4 and fees, due or overdue under the order; and
5 (2) any amounts that have been received by the clerk,
6 and the distribution of those amounts by the clerk.
7 (h) Information filed by the obligor and obligee under this
8Section that is not specifically required to be included in the
9body of an order for support under other laws is not a public
10record and shall be treated as confidential and subject to
11disclosure only in accordance with the provisions of this
12Section, Section 10-27 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, and
13Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act.
14 Section 804. Information to locate putative fathers and
15noncustodial parents.
16 (a) Upon request by a public office, employers, labor
17unions, and telephone companies shall provide location
18information concerning putative fathers and noncustodial
19parents for the purpose of establishing the parentage of a
20child or establishing, enforcing, or modifying a child support
21obligation. As used in this Section, the term "public office"
22is defined as set forth in the Income Withholding for Support
23Act, and "location information" means information about (i) the
24physical whereabouts of a putative father or noncustodial
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1noncustodial parent; or (iii) the salary, wages, and other
2compensation paid and the health insurance coverage provided to
3the putative father or noncustodial parent by the employer of
4the putative father or noncustodial parent or by a labor union
5of which the putative father or noncustodial parent is a
6member. An employer, labor union, or telephone company shall
7respond to the request of the public office within 15 days
8after receiving the request. An employer, labor union, or
9telephone company that willfully fails to fully respond within
10the 15-day period shall be subject to a penalty of $100 for
11each day that the response is not provided to the public office
12after the 15-day period has expired. The penalty may be
13collected in a civil action, which may be brought against the
14employer, labor union, or telephone company in favor of the
15public office.
16 (b) Upon being served with a subpoena (including an
17administrative subpoena as authorized by law), a utility
18company or cable television company must provide location
19information to a public office for the purpose of establishing
20the parentage of a child or establishing, enforcing, or
21modifying a child support obligation.
22 (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other State or
23local law to the contrary, an employer, labor union, telephone
24company, utility company, or cable television company shall not
25be liable to any person for disclosure of location information
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1wanton misconduct.
2 Section 805. Enforcement of judgment or order.
3 (a) If the existence of the parent-child relationship is
4declared, or if parentage or a duty of support has been
5established under this Act or under prior law or under the law
6of any other jurisdiction, the judgment rendered thereunder may
7be enforced in the same or in other proceedings by any party or
8any person or agency that has furnished or may furnish
9financial assistance or services to the child. The Income
10Withholding for Support Act and Sections 802 and 808 of this
11Act shall also be applicable with respect to the entry,
12modification, and enforcement of a support judgment entered
13under the Paternity Act, approved July 5, 1957 and repealed
14July 1, 1985.
15 (b) Failure to comply with an order of the court shall be
16punishable as contempt as in other cases of failure to comply
17under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. In
18addition to other penalties provided by law, the court may,
19after finding the party guilty of contempt, take the following
20action:
21 (1) Order that the party be placed on probation with
22 such conditions of probation as the court deems advisable.
23 (2) Order that the party be sentenced to periodic
24 imprisonment for a period not to exceed 6 months. However,
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1 of time during the day or night to work, conduct business,
2 or engage in other self-employed occupation. The court may
3 further order any part of all the earnings of a party
4 during a sentence of periodic imprisonment to be paid to
5 the clerk of the circuit court or to the person or parent
6 having custody of the minor child for the support of the
7 child until further order of the court.
8 (3) Pierce the ownership veil of a person, persons, or
9 business entity to discover assets of a non-custodial
10 parent held in the name of that person, those persons, or
11 that business entity, if there is a unity of interest and
12 ownership sufficient to render no financial separation
13 between the non-custodial parent and that person, those
14 persons, or the business entity. The following
15 circumstances are sufficient for a court to order discovery
16 of the assets of a person, persons, or business entity and
17 to compel the application of any discovered assets toward
18 payment of the judgment for support:
19 (A) the non-custodial parent and the person,
20 persons, or business entity maintain records together.
21 (B) the non-custodial parent and the person,
22 persons, or business entity fail to maintain an
23 arm's-length relationship between themselves with
24 regard to any assets.
25 (C) the non-custodial parent transfers assets to
26 the person, persons, or business entity with the intent

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1 to perpetrate a fraud on the custodial parent. With
2 respect to assets which are real property, no order
3 entered under this subdivision (3) shall affect the
4 rights of bona fide purchasers, mortgagees, judgment
5 creditors, or other lien holders who acquire their
6 interests in the property prior to the time a notice of
7 lis pendens under the Code of Civil Procedure or a copy
8 of the order is placed of record in the office of the
9 recorder of deeds for the county in which the real
10 property is located.
11 (4) Order that, in cases where the party is 90 days or
12 more delinquent in payment of support or has been
13 adjudicated in arrears in an amount equal to 90 days
14 obligation or more, the party's Illinois driving
15 privileges be suspended until the court determines that the
16 party is in compliance with the judgment or duty of
17 support. The court may also order that the parent be issued
18 a family financial responsibility driving permit that
19 would allow limited driving privileges for employment and
20 medical purposes in accordance with Section 7-702.1 of the
21 Illinois Vehicle Code. The clerk of the circuit court shall
22 certify the order suspending the driving privileges of the
23 parent or granting the issuance of a family financial
24 responsibility driving permit to the Secretary of State on
25 forms prescribed by the Secretary. Upon receipt of the
26 authenticated documents, the Secretary of State shall

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1 suspend the party's driving privileges until further order
2 of the court and shall, if ordered by the court and subject
3 to the provisions of Section 7-702.1 of the Illinois
4 Vehicle Code, issue a family financial responsibility
5 driving permit to the parent.
6 In addition to the penalties or punishment that may be
7imposed under this Section, a person whose conduct constitutes
8a violation of Section 15 of the Non-Support Punishment Act may
9be prosecuted under that Act, and a person convicted under that
10Act may be sentenced in accordance with that Act. The sentence
11may include, but need not be limited to, a requirement that the
12person perform community service under Section 50 of that Act
13or participate in a work alternative program under Section 50
14of that Act. A person may not be required to participate in a
15work alternative program under Section 50 of the Non-Support
16Punishment Act if the person is currently participating in a
17work program under Section 806 of this Act.
18 (c) In a post-judgment proceeding to enforce or modify the
19judgment, the parties shall continue to be designated as in the
20original proceeding.
21 Section 806. Unemployment of person owing duty of support.
22 (a) Whenever it is determined in a proceeding to establish
23or enforce a child support obligation that the person owing a
24duty of support is unemployed, the court may order the person
25to seek employment and report periodically to the court with a

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1diary, listing, or other memorandum of his or her efforts to
2seek employment in accordance with the order. Additionally, the
3court may order the unemployed person to report to the
4Department of Employment Security for job search services and
5to participate in job training or work programs. When the duty
6of support is owed to a child receiving child support
7enforcement services under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
8Code, the court may order the unemployed person to report to
9the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for
10participation in job search, training, or work programs
11established under Section 9-6 and Article IXA of that Code.
12 (b) Whenever it is determined that a person owes past-due
13support for a child, and the child is receiving assistance
14under the Illinois Public Aid Code, the court shall, at the
15request of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services,
16order the following:
17 (1) that the person pay the past-due support in
18 accordance with a payment plan approved by the court; or
19 (2) if the person owing past-due support is unemployed,
20 is subject to a payment plan, and is not incapacitated,
21 that the person participate in job search, training, or
22 work programs established under Section 9-6 and Article IXA
23 of the Illinois Public Aid Code as the court deems
24 appropriate.
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1is sought under this Act, the court, before granting relief,
2shall determine whether an order of protection has previously
3been entered in the instant proceeding or any other proceeding
4in which any party, or a child of any party, or both, if
5relevant, has been designated as either a respondent or a
6protected person.
7 Section 808. Modification of judgment. The court has
8continuing jurisdiction to modify an order for support,
9custody, parenting time, or removal included in a judgment
10entered under this Act. Any custody, parenting time, or removal
11judgment modification shall be in accordance with the relevant
12factors specified in the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
13Marriage Act. Any support judgment is subject to modification
14or termination only in accordance with Section 510 of the
15Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
16 Section 809. Right to counsel.
17 (a) Any party may be represented by counsel at all
18proceedings under this Act. Except as otherwise provided in
19this Act, the court may order, in accordance with the relevant
20factors specified in Section 508 of the Illinois Marriage and
21Dissolution of Marriage Act, reasonable fees of counsel,
22experts, and other costs of the action, pre-trial proceedings,
23post-judgment proceedings to enforce or modify the judgment,
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1be paid by the parties. The court may not order payment by the
2Department of Healthcare and Family Services in cases in which
3the Department is providing child support enforcement services
4under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
5 (b) In any proceedings involving the support, custody,
6parenting time, education, parentage, property interest, or
7general welfare of a minor or dependent child, the court may,
8on its own motion or that of any party, appoint an attorney to
9serve in one of the capacities specified in Section 506 of the
10Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
11 Section 810. Withholding of income to secure payment of
12support. Orders for support entered under this Act are subject
13to the Income Withholding for Support Act.
14 Section 811. Information concerning obligors.
15 (a) In this Section:
16 "Arrearage", "delinquency", "obligor", and "order for
17support" have the meanings attributed to those terms in the
18Income Withholding for Support Act.
19 "Consumer reporting agency" has the meaning attributed to
20that term in Section 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act,
2115 U.S.C. 1681a(f).
22 (b) Whenever a court of competent jurisdiction finds that
23an obligor either owes an arrearage of more than $10,000 or is
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1support obligation pursuant to an order for support, the court
2shall direct the clerk of the circuit court to make information
3concerning the obligor available to consumer reporting
4agencies.
5 (c) Whenever a court of competent jurisdiction finds that
6an obligor either owes an arrearage of more than $10,000 or is
7delinquent in payment of an amount equal to at least 3 months'
8support obligation pursuant to an order for support, the court
9shall direct the clerk of the circuit court to cause the
10obligor's name and address to be published in a newspaper of
11general circulation in the area in which the obligor resides.
12The clerk of the circuit court shall cause the obligor's name
13and address to be published only after sending to the obligor
14at the obligor's last known address, by certified mail, return
15receipt requested, a notice of intent to publish the
16information. This subsection (c) applies only if the obligor
17resides in the county in which the clerk of the circuit court
18holds office.
19 Section 812. Interest on support obligations. A support
20obligation, or any portion of a support obligation, which
21becomes due and remains unpaid as of the end of each month,
22excluding the child support that was due for that month to the
23extent that it was not paid in that month, shall accrue simple
24interest as set forth in Section 12-109 of the Code of Civil
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1a support obligation required under the order, or any portion
2of a support obligation required under the order, that becomes
3due and remains unpaid as of the end of each month, excluding
4the child support that was due for that month to the extent
5that it was not paid in that month, shall accrue simple
6interest as set forth in Section 12-109 of the Code of Civil
7Procedure. Failure to include the statement in the order for
8support does not affect the validity of the order or the
9accrual of interest as provided in this Section.
10 Section 813. Support payments; receiving and disbursing
11agents.
12 (a) In an action filed in a county with less than 3,000,000
13inhabitants in which an order for child support is entered, and
14in supplementary proceedings to enforce or vary the terms of
15the order arising out of an action filed in such a county, the
16court, except in actions or supplementary proceedings in which
17the pregnancy and delivery expenses of the mother or the child
18support payments are for a recipient of aid under the Illinois
19Public Aid Code, shall direct that child support payments be
20made to the clerk of the circuit court, unless in the
21discretion of the court exceptional circumstances warrant
22otherwise. In cases where payment is to be made to persons
23other than the clerk of the circuit court, the judgment or
24order of support shall set forth the facts of the exceptional
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1 (b) In an action filed in a county of 3,000,000 or more
2inhabitants in which an order for child support is entered, and
3in supplementary proceedings to enforce or vary the terms of
4the order arising out of an action filed in such a county, the
5court, except in actions or supplementary proceedings in which
6the pregnancy and delivery expenses of the mother or the child
7support payments are for a recipient of aid under the Illinois
8Public Aid Code, shall direct that child support payments be
9made either to the clerk of the circuit court or to the Court
10Service Division of the Department of Human Services local
11office or offices or its successor or to the Department of
12Healthcare and Family Services, unless in the discretion of the
13court exceptional circumstances warrant otherwise. In cases
14where payment is to be made to persons other than the clerk of
15the circuit court, the Court Service Division of the Department
16of Human Services local office or offices or its successor, or
17the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the judgment
18or order of support shall set forth the facts of the
19exceptional circumstances.
20 (c) When the action or supplementary proceeding is on
21behalf of a mother for pregnancy and delivery expenses or for
22child support, or both, and the mother, child, or both, are
23recipients of aid under the Illinois Public Aid Code, the court
24shall order that the payments be made directly to (1) the
25Department of Healthcare and Family Services, if the mother or
26child, or both, are recipients under Article IV or V of the

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1Illinois Public Aid Code; or (2) the local governmental unit
2responsible for the support of the mother or child, or both, if
3they are recipients under Article VI of the Illinois Public Aid
4Code. In accordance with federal law and regulations, the
5Department of Healthcare and Family Services may continue to
6collect current maintenance payments or child support
7payments, or both, after those persons cease to receive public
8assistance and until termination of services under Article X of
9the Illinois Public Aid Code. The Department of Healthcare and
10Family Services shall pay the net amount collected to those
11persons after deducting any costs incurred in making the
12collection or any collection fee from the amount of any
13recovery made. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services
14or the local governmental unit, as the case may be, may direct
15that payments be made directly to the mother of the child, or
16to some other person or agency on the child's behalf, upon the
17removal of the mother and child from the public aid rolls or
18upon termination of services under Article X of the Illinois
19Public Aid Code; upon such direction, the Department of
20Healthcare and Family Services or the local governmental unit
21shall give notice of the action to the court in writing or by
22electronic transmission.
23 (d) All clerks of the circuit court and the Court Service
24Division of the Department of Human Services local office or
25offices or its successor and the Department of Healthcare and
26Family Services, receiving child support payments under

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1subsection (a) or (b) shall disburse the payments to the person
2or persons entitled to the payments under the terms of the
3order. The entity disbursing the payments shall establish and
4maintain clear and current records of all moneys received and
5disbursed and of defaults and delinquencies in required
6payments. The court, by order or rule, shall make provision for
7the carrying out of these duties. Payments under this Section
8to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services made
9pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program established
10by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be paid into the
11Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All payments under this
12Section to the Illinois Department of Human Services shall be
13deposited in the DHS Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursement from
14these funds shall be as provided in the Illinois Public Aid
15Code. Payments received by a local governmental unit shall be
16deposited in that unit's General Assistance Fund.
17 (e) The moneys received by persons or agencies designated
18by the court shall be disbursed by them in accordance with the
19order. However, the court, on petition of the State's Attorney,
20may enter new orders designating the clerk of the circuit court
21or the Department of Healthcare and Family Services as the
22person or agency authorized to receive and disburse child
23support payments and, in the case of a recipient of public aid,
24the court, on petition of the Attorney General or State's
25Attorney, shall direct subsequent payments to be paid to the
26Department of Healthcare and Family Services or to the

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1appropriate local governmental unit, as provided in subsection
2(c) of this Section. Payments of child support by principals or
3sureties on bonds or proceeds of any sale for the enforcement
4of a judgment shall be made to the clerk of the circuit court,
5the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, or the
6appropriate local governmental unit, as required by this
7Section.
8 (f) For those cases in which child support is payable to
9the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal to the
10Department of Healthcare and Family Services by order of court
11or upon notification by the Department of Healthcare and Family
12Services, the clerk of the circuit court shall transmit all
13payments, within 4 working days of receipt, to insure that
14funds are available for immediate distribution by the
15Department of Healthcare and Family Services to the person or
16entity entitled to them in accordance with the Child Support
17Enforcement Program under Title IV-D of the Social Security
18Act. The clerk of the circuit court shall notify the Department
19of Healthcare and Family Services of the date of receipt and
20the amount of the funds at the time of transmittal. If the
21clerk of the circuit court has entered into an agreement of
22cooperation with the Department of Healthcare and Family
23Services to record the terms of child support orders and
24payments made thereunder directly into the Department's
25automated data processing system, the clerk of the circuit
26court shall account for, transmit and otherwise distribute

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1child support payments in accordance with the agreement in lieu
2of the requirements contained in this Section.
3 (g) To the extent the provisions of this Section are
4inconsistent with the requirements pertaining to the State
5Disbursement Unit under Section 815 of this Act and Section
610-26 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, the requirements
7pertaining to the State Disbursement Unit shall apply.
8 Section 814. Notice of child support enforcement services.
9The Department of Healthcare and Family Services may provide
10notice at any time to the parties to an action filed under this
11Act that child support enforcement services are being provided
12by the Department under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
13Code. After notice is provided, the Department of Healthcare
14and Family Services shall be entitled, as if it were a party,
15to notice of any further proceedings brought in the case. The
16Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall provide the
17clerk of the circuit court with copies of the notices sent to
18the parties. The clerk of the circuit court shall file the
19copies in the court file.
20 Section 815. Payment of support to State Disbursement Unit.
21 (a) As used in this Section, "order for support",
22"obligor", "obligee", and "payor" have the meanings ascribed to
23them in the Income Withholding for Support Act, except that
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1maintenance under which there is no child support obligation.
2 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act to the
3contrary, each order for support entered or modified on or
4after October 1, 1999 shall require that support payments be
5made to the State Disbursement Unit established under Section
610-26 of the Illinois Public Aid Code if:
7 (1) a party to the order is receiving child support
8 enforcement services under Article X of the Illinois Public
9 Aid Code; or
10 (2) no party to the order is receiving child support
11 enforcement services, but the support payments are made
12 through income withholding.
13 (c) Support payments shall be made to the State
14Disbursement Unit if:
15 (1) the order for support was entered before October 1,
16 1999, and a party to the order is receiving child support
17 enforcement services under Article X of the Illinois Public
18 Aid Code; or
19 (2) no party to the order is receiving child support
20 enforcement services, and the support payments are being
21 made through income withholding.
22 (d) If no party to the order is receiving child support
23enforcement services under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
24Code and the support payments are not made through income
25withholding, then support payments shall be made as directed by
26the order for support.

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1 (e) At any time, and notwithstanding the existence of an
2order directing payments to be made elsewhere, the Department
3of Healthcare and Family Services may provide notice to the
4obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's payor:
5 (1) to make support payments to the State Disbursement
6 Unit if:
7 (A) a party to the order for support is receiving
8 child support enforcement services under Article X of
9 the Illinois Public Aid Code; or
10 (B) no party to the order for support is receiving
11 child support enforcement services under Article X of
12 the Illinois Public Aid Code, but the support payments
13 are made through income withholding; or
14 (2) to make support payments to the State Disbursement
15 Unit of another state upon request of another state's Title
16 IV-D child support enforcement agency, in accordance with
17 the requirements of Title IV, Part D of the Social Security
18 Act and regulations promulgated under that Part D.
19 The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
20provide a copy of the notice sent under this subsection to the
21obligee and to the clerk of the circuit court.
22 (f) The clerk of the circuit court shall provide written
23notice to the obligor to make payments directly to the clerk of
24the circuit court if no party to the order is receiving child
25support enforcement services under Article X of the Illinois
26Public Aid Code, the support payments are not made through

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1income withholding, and the order for support requires support
2payments to be made directly to the clerk of the circuit court.
3The clerk of the circuit court shall provide a copy of the
4notice to the obligee.
5 (g) If the State Disbursement Unit receives a support
6payment that was not appropriately made to the Unit under this
7Section, the Unit shall immediately return the payment to the
8sender, including, if possible, instructions detailing where
9to send the support payments.
10 (h) The notices under subsections (e) and (f) may be sent
11by ordinary mail, certified mail with return receipt requested,
12facsimile transmission, other electronic process, or any
13method provided by law for service of a summons.
14 Section 816. Notice to the clerk of circuit court of
15payment received by Department of Healthcare and Family
16Services. For those cases in which support is payable to the
17clerk of the circuit court for transmittal to the Department of
18Healthcare and Family Services by order of court, and the
19Department of Healthcare and Family Services collects support
20by assignment, offset, withhold, deduction, or other process
21permitted by law, the Department of Healthcare and Family
22Services shall notify the clerk of the circuit court of the
23date and amount of the collection. Upon notification, the clerk
24of the circuit court shall record the collection on the payment
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1
ARTICLE 9. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
2 Section 901. Burden of proof. Absent a burden of proof
3specifically set forth in this Act, the burden of proof shall
4be by a preponderance of the evidence.
5 Section 902. Severability clause. If any provision of this
6Act or its application to an individual or circumstance is held
7invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or
8applications of this Act which can be given effect without the
9invalid provision or application, and to this end the
10provisions of this Act are severable.
11 Section 903. Transitional provision. A proceeding to
12adjudicate parentage which was commenced before the effective
13date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time
14the proceeding was commenced.
15 Section 904. Savings provision. The repeal of the Illinois
16Parentage Act of 1984 and the Illinois Parentage Act shall not
17affect rights or liabilities under those Act which have been
18determined, settled, or adjudicated prior to the effective date
19of this Act or which are the subject of proceedings pending on
20the effective date of this Act. This Act shall not be construed
21to bar an action which would have been barred because the

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1action had not been filed within a time limitation under the
2Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 and the Illinois Parentage Act,
3or which could not have been maintained under those Acts, as
4long as the action is not barred by a limitations period set
5forth in this Act.
6 Section 905. Other states' establishments of parentage.
7Establishments of parentage made under the laws of other states
8shall be given full faith and credit in this State regardless
9of whether parentage was established through voluntary
10acknowledgment or through judicial or administrative
11processes.
12 Section 951. The Department of Employment Security Law of
13the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
14changing Section 1005-130 as follows:
15 (20 ILCS 1005/1005-130) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.14)
16 Sec. 1005-130. Exchange of information for child support
17enforcement.
18 (a) The Department has the power to exchange with the
19Department of Healthcare and Family Services information that
20may be necessary for the enforcement of child support orders
21entered pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois
22Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
23Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the

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1Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the
2Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois
3Parentage Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
4 (b) Notwithstanding any provisions in the Civil
5Administrative Code of Illinois to the contrary, the Department
6of Employment Security shall not be liable to any person for
7any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare
8and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public
9Aid) under subsection (a) or for any other action taken in good
10faith to comply with the requirements of subsection (a).
11(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
12 Section 952. The Department of Professional Regulation Law
13of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
14changing Section 2105-15 as follows:
15 (20 ILCS 2105/2105-15)
16 Sec. 2105-15. General powers and duties.
17 (a) The Department has, subject to the provisions of the
18Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the following powers and
19duties:
20 (1) To authorize examinations in English to ascertain
21 the qualifications and fitness of applicants to exercise
22 the profession, trade, or occupation for which the
23 examination is held.
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1 wholly impartial method of examination of candidates to
2 exercise the respective professions, trades, or
3 occupations.
4 (3) To pass upon the qualifications of applicants for
5 licenses, certificates, and authorities, whether by
6 examination, by reciprocity, or by endorsement.
7 (4) To prescribe rules and regulations defining, for
8 the respective professions, trades, and occupations, what
9 shall constitute a school, college, or university, or
10 department of a university, or other institution,
11 reputable and in good standing, and to determine the
12 reputability and good standing of a school, college, or
13 university, or department of a university, or other
14 institution, reputable and in good standing, by reference
15 to a compliance with those rules and regulations; provided,
16 that no school, college, or university, or department of a
17 university, or other institution that refuses admittance
18 to applicants solely on account of race, color, creed, sex,
19 or national origin shall be considered reputable and in
20 good standing.
21 (5) To conduct hearings on proceedings to revoke,
22 suspend, refuse to renew, place on probationary status, or
23 take other disciplinary action as authorized in any
24 licensing Act administered by the Department with regard to
25 licenses, certificates, or authorities of persons
26 exercising the respective professions, trades, or

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1 occupations and to revoke, suspend, refuse to renew, place
2 on probationary status, or take other disciplinary action
3 as authorized in any licensing Act administered by the
4 Department with regard to those licenses, certificates, or
5 authorities. The Department shall issue a monthly
6 disciplinary report. The Department shall deny any license
7 or renewal authorized by the Civil Administrative Code of
8 Illinois to any person who has defaulted on an educational
9 loan or scholarship provided by or guaranteed by the
10 Illinois Student Assistance Commission or any governmental
11 agency of this State; however, the Department may issue a
12 license or renewal if the aforementioned persons have
13 established a satisfactory repayment record as determined
14 by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission or other
15 appropriate governmental agency of this State.
16 Additionally, beginning June 1, 1996, any license issued by
17 the Department may be suspended or revoked if the
18 Department, after the opportunity for a hearing under the
19 appropriate licensing Act, finds that the licensee has
20 failed to make satisfactory repayment to the Illinois
21 Student Assistance Commission for a delinquent or
22 defaulted loan. For the purposes of this Section,
23 "satisfactory repayment record" shall be defined by rule.
24 The Department shall refuse to issue or renew a license to,
25 or shall suspend or revoke a license of, any person who,
26 after receiving notice, fails to comply with a subpoena or

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1 warrant relating to a paternity or child support
2 proceeding. However, the Department may issue a license or
3 renewal upon compliance with the subpoena or warrant.
4 The Department, without further process or hearings,
5 shall revoke, suspend, or deny any license or renewal
6 authorized by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to
7 a person who is certified by the Department of Healthcare
8 and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of
9 Public Aid) as being more than 30 days delinquent in
10 complying with a child support order or who is certified by
11 a court as being in violation of the Non-Support Punishment
12 Act for more than 60 days. The Department may, however,
13 issue a license or renewal if the person has established a
14 satisfactory repayment record as determined by the
15 Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
16 Illinois Department of Public Aid) or if the person is
17 determined by the court to be in compliance with the
18 Non-Support Punishment Act. The Department may implement
19 this paragraph as added by Public Act 89-6 through the use
20 of emergency rules in accordance with Section 5-45 of the
21 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. For purposes of the
22 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the adoption of
23 rules to implement this paragraph shall be considered an
24 emergency and necessary for the public interest, safety,
25 and welfare.
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1 control of the Department to any other department of the
2 State Government or to acquire or accept federal lands when
3 the transfer, acquisition, or acceptance is advantageous
4 to the State and is approved in writing by the Governor.
5 (7) To formulate rules and regulations necessary for
6 the enforcement of any Act administered by the Department.
7 (8) To exchange with the Department of Healthcare and
8 Family Services information that may be necessary for the
9 enforcement of child support orders entered pursuant to the
10 Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage and
11 Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
12 Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Revised
13 Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the Uniform
14 Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage
15 Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
16 Notwithstanding any provisions in this Code to the
17 contrary, the Department of Professional Regulation shall
18 not be liable under any federal or State law to any person
19 for any disclosure of information to the Department of
20 Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois
21 Department of Public Aid) under this paragraph (8) or for
22 any other action taken in good faith to comply with the
23 requirements of this paragraph (8).
24 (9) To perform other duties prescribed by law.
25 (a-5) Except in cases involving default on an educational
26loan or scholarship provided by or guaranteed by the Illinois

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1Student Assistance Commission or any governmental agency of
2this State or in cases involving delinquency in complying with
3a child support order or violation of the Non-Support
4Punishment Act, no person or entity whose license, certificate,
5or authority has been revoked as authorized in any licensing
6Act administered by the Department may apply for restoration of
7that license, certification, or authority until 3 years after
8the effective date of the revocation.
9 (b) The Department may, when a fee is payable to the
10Department for a wall certificate of registration provided by
11the Department of Central Management Services, require that
12portion of the payment for printing and distribution costs be
13made directly or through the Department to the Department of
14Central Management Services for deposit into the Paper and
15Printing Revolving Fund. The remainder shall be deposited into
16the General Revenue Fund.
17 (c) For the purpose of securing and preparing evidence, and
18for the purchase of controlled substances, professional
19services, and equipment necessary for enforcement activities,
20recoupment of investigative costs, and other activities
21directed at suppressing the misuse and abuse of controlled
22substances, including those activities set forth in Sections
23504 and 508 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, the
24Director and agents appointed and authorized by the Director
25may expend sums from the Professional Regulation Evidence Fund
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1for that purpose. Those sums may be advanced to the agent when
2the Director deems that procedure to be in the public interest.
3Sums for the purchase of controlled substances, professional
4services, and equipment necessary for enforcement activities
5and other activities as set forth in this Section shall be
6advanced to the agent who is to make the purchase from the
7Professional Regulation Evidence Fund on vouchers signed by the
8Director. The Director and those agents are authorized to
9maintain one or more commercial checking accounts with any
10State banking corporation or corporations organized under or
11subject to the Illinois Banking Act for the deposit and
12withdrawal of moneys to be used for the purposes set forth in
13this Section; provided, that no check may be written nor any
14withdrawal made from any such account except upon the written
15signatures of 2 persons designated by the Director to write
16those checks and make those withdrawals. Vouchers for those
17expenditures must be signed by the Director. All such
18expenditures shall be audited by the Director, and the audit
19shall be submitted to the Department of Central Management
20Services for approval.
21 (d) Whenever the Department is authorized or required by
22law to consider some aspect of criminal history record
23information for the purpose of carrying out its statutory
24powers and responsibilities, then, upon request and payment of
25fees in conformance with the requirements of Section 2605-400
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1the Department of State Police is authorized to furnish,
2pursuant to positive identification, the information contained
3in State files that is necessary to fulfill the request.
4 (e) The provisions of this Section do not apply to private
5business and vocational schools as defined by Section 15 of the
6Private Business and Vocational Schools Act of 2012.
7 (f) Beginning July 1, 1995, this Section does not apply to
8those professions, trades, and occupations licensed under the
9Real Estate License Act of 2000, nor does it apply to any
10permits, certificates, or other authorizations to do business
11provided for in the Land Sales Registration Act of 1989 or the
12Illinois Real Estate Time-Share Act.
13 (g) Notwithstanding anything that may appear in any
14individual licensing statute or administrative rule, the
15Department shall deny any license application or renewal
16authorized under any licensing Act administered by the
17Department to any person who has failed to file a return, or to
18pay the tax, penalty, or interest shown in a filed return, or
19to pay any final assessment of tax, penalty, or interest, as
20required by any tax Act administered by the Illinois Department
21of Revenue, until such time as the requirement of any such tax
22Act are satisfied; however, the Department may issue a license
23or renewal if the person has established a satisfactory
24repayment record as determined by the Illinois Department of
25Revenue. For the purpose of this Section, "satisfactory
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1 In addition, a complaint filed with the Department by the
2Illinois Department of Revenue that includes a certification,
3signed by its Director or designee, attesting to the amount of
4the unpaid tax liability or the years for which a return was
5not filed, or both, is prima facie facia evidence of the
6licensee's failure to comply with the tax laws administered by
7the Illinois Department of Revenue. Upon receipt of that
8certification, the Department shall, without a hearing,
9immediately suspend all licenses held by the licensee.
10Enforcement of the Department's order shall be stayed for 60
11days. The Department shall provide notice of the suspension to
12the licensee by mailing a copy of the Department's order by
13certified and regular mail to the licensee's last known address
14as registered with the Department. The notice shall advise the
15licensee that the suspension shall be effective 60 days after
16the issuance of the Department's order unless the Department
17receives, from the licensee, a request for a hearing before the
18Department to dispute the matters contained in the order.
19 Any suspension imposed under this subsection (g) shall be
20terminated by the Department upon notification from the
21Illinois Department of Revenue that the licensee is in
22compliance with all tax laws administered by the Illinois
23Department of Revenue.
24 The Department shall promulgate rules for the
25administration of this subsection (g).
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1used immediately adjacent to the title of a profession
2regulated by the Department, to eligible retirees. The use of
3the title "Retired" shall not constitute representation of
4current licensure, registration, or certification. Any person
5without an active license, registration, or certificate in a
6profession that requires licensure, registration, or
7certification shall not be permitted to practice that
8profession.
9 (i) Within 180 days after December 23, 2009 (the effective
10date of Public Act 96-852), the Department shall promulgate
11rules which permit a person with a criminal record, who seeks a
12license or certificate in an occupation for which a criminal
13record is not expressly a per se bar, to apply to the
14Department for a non-binding, advisory opinion to be provided
15by the Board or body with the authority to issue the license or
16certificate as to whether his or her criminal record would bar
17the individual from the licensure or certification sought,
18should the individual meet all other licensure requirements
19including, but not limited to, the successful completion of the
20relevant examinations.
21(Source: P.A. 96-459, eff. 8-14-09; 96-852, eff. 12-23-09;
2296-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-650, eff. 2-1-12; revised 9-9-13.)
23 Section 953. The Department of Revenue Law of the Civil
24Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
252505-65 as follows:

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1 (20 ILCS 2505/2505-65) (was 20 ILCS 2505/39b12)
2 Sec. 2505-65. Exchange of information.
3 (a) The Department has the power to exchange with any
4state, with any local subdivisions of any state, or with the
5federal government, except when specifically prohibited by
6law, any information that may be necessary to efficient tax
7administration and that may be acquired as a result of the
8administration of the laws set forth in the Sections following
9Section 95-10 and preceding Section 2505-60.
10 (b) The Department has the power to exchange with the
11Department of Healthcare and Family Services information that
12may be necessary for the enforcement of child support orders
13entered pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois
14Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
15Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the
16Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the
17Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois
18Parentage Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
19Notwithstanding any provisions in this Code to the contrary,
20the Department of Revenue shall not be liable to any person for
21any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare
22and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public
23Aid) under this subsection (b) or for any other action taken in
24good faith to comply with the requirements of this subsection
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1(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
2 Section 954. The Counties Code is amended by changing
3Section 3-5036.5 as follows:
4 (55 ILCS 5/3-5036.5)
5 Sec. 3-5036.5. Exchange of information for child support
6enforcement.
7 (a) The Recorder shall exchange with the Department of
8Healthcare and Family Services information that may be
9necessary for the enforcement of child support orders entered
10pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage
11and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
12Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Revised
13Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the Uniform
14Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of
151984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
16 (b) Notwithstanding any provisions in this Code to the
17contrary, the Recorder shall not be liable to any person for
18any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare
19and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public
20Aid) under subsection (a) or for any other action taken in good
21faith to comply with the requirements of subsection (a).
22(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
23 Section 955. The Collection Agency Act is amended by

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1changing Section 2.04 as follows:
2 (225 ILCS 425/2.04) (from Ch. 111, par. 2005.1)
3 (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
4 Sec. 2.04. Child support indebtedness.
5 (a) Persons, associations, partnerships, corporations, or
6other legal entities engaged in the business of collecting
7child support indebtedness owing under a court order as
8provided under the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois
9Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
10Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the
11Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, the Illinois Parentage Act of
122014, or similar laws of other states are not restricted (i) in
13the frequency of contact with an obligor who is in arrears,
14whether by phone, mail, or other means, (ii) from contacting
15the employer of an obligor who is in arrears, (iii) from
16publishing or threatening to publish a list of obligors in
17arrears, (iv) from disclosing or threatening to disclose an
18arrearage that the obligor disputes, but for which a verified
19notice of delinquency has been served under the Income
20Withholding for Support Act (or any of its predecessors,
21Section 10-16.2 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, Section 706.1
22of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act,
23Section 4.1 of the Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act,
24Section 26.1 of the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of
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11984), or (v) from engaging in conduct that would not cause a
2reasonable person mental or physical illness. For purposes of
3this subsection, "obligor" means an individual who owes a duty
4to make periodic payments, under a court order, for the support
5of a child. "Arrearage" means the total amount of an obligor's
6unpaid child support obligations.
7 (a-5) A collection agency may not impose a fee or charge,
8including costs, for any child support payments collected
9through the efforts of a federal, State, or local government
10agency, including but not limited to child support collected
11from federal or State tax refunds, unemployment benefits, or
12Social Security benefits.
13 No collection agency that collects child support payments
14shall (i) impose a charge or fee, including costs, for
15collection of a current child support payment, (ii) fail to
16apply collections to current support as specified in the order
17for support before applying collection to arrears or other
18amounts, or (iii) designate a current child support payment as
19arrears or other amount owed. In all circumstances, the
20collection agency shall turn over to the obligee all support
21collected in a month up to the amount of current support
22required to be paid for that month.
23 As to any fees or charges, including costs, retained by the
24collection agency, that agency shall provide documentation to
25the obligee demonstrating that the child support payments
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1 After collection of the total amount or arrearage,
2including statutory interest, due as of the date of execution
3of the collection contract, no further fees may be charged.
4 (a-10) The Department of Professional Regulation shall
5determine a fee rate of not less than 25% but not greater than
635%, based upon presentation by the licensees as to costs to
7provide the service and a fair rate of return. This rate shall
8be established by administrative rule.
9 Without prejudice to the determination by the Department of
10the appropriate rate through administrative rule, a collection
11agency shall impose a fee of not more than 29% of the amount of
12child support actually collected by the collection agency
13subject to the provisions of subsection (a-5). This interim
14rate is based upon the March 2002 General Account Office report
15"Child Support Enforcement", GAO-02-349. This rate shall apply
16until a fee rate is established by administrative rule.
17 (b) The Department shall adopt rules necessary to
18administer and enforce the provisions of this Section.
19(Source: P.A. 93-896, eff. 8-10-04; 94-414, eff. 12-31-05.)
20 Section 956. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
21changing Sections 10-3.1, 10-16.7, 10-17, 10-17.7, 10-19,
2210-25, 10-25.5, 10-27, and 12-4.7c as follows:
23 (305 ILCS 5/10-3.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-3.1)
24 Sec. 10-3.1. Child and Spouse Support Unit. The Illinois

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1Department shall establish within its administrative staff a
2Child and Spouse Support Unit to search for and locate absent
3parents and spouses liable for the support of persons resident
4in this State and to exercise the support enforcement powers
5and responsibilities assigned the Department by this Article.
6The unit shall cooperate with all law enforcement officials in
7this State and with the authorities of other States in locating
8persons responsible for the support of persons resident in
9other States and shall invite the cooperation of these
10authorities in the performance of its duties.
11 In addition to other duties assigned the Child and Spouse
12Support Unit by this Article, the Unit may refer to the
13Attorney General or units of local government with the approval
14of the Attorney General, any actions under Sections 10-10 and
1510-15 for judicial enforcement of the support liability. The
16Child and Spouse Support Unit shall act for the Department in
17referring to the Attorney General support matters requiring
18judicial enforcement under other laws. If requested by the
19Attorney General to so act, as provided in Section 12-16,
20attorneys of the Unit may assist the Attorney General or
21themselves institute actions on in behalf of the Illinois
22Department under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of
23Support Act; under the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 or under
24the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014; under the Non-Support of
25Spouse and Children Act; under the Non-Support Punishment Act;
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1of a spouse or dependent child.
2 The Illinois Department shall also have the authority to
3enter into agreements with local governmental units or
4individuals, with the approval of the Attorney General, for the
5collection of moneys owing because of the failure of a parent
6to make child support payments for any child receiving services
7under this Article. Such agreements may be on a contingent fee
8basis, but such contingent fee shall not exceed 25% of the
9total amount collected.
10 An attorney who provides representation pursuant to this
11Section shall represent the Illinois Department exclusively.
12Regardless of the designation of the plaintiff in an action
13brought pursuant to this Section, an attorney-client
14relationship does not exist for purposes of that action between
15that attorney and (i) an applicant for or recipient of child
16support enforcement services or (ii) any other party to the
17action other than the Illinois Department. Nothing in this
18Section shall be construed to modify any power or duty
19(including a duty to maintain confidentiality) of the Child and
20Spouse Support Unit or the Illinois Department otherwise
21provided by law.
22 The Illinois Department may also enter into agreements with
23local governmental units for the Child and Spouse Support Unit
24to exercise the investigative and enforcement powers
25designated in this Article, including the issuance of
26administrative orders under Section 10-11, in locating

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1responsible relatives and obtaining support for persons
2applying for or receiving aid under Article VI. Payments for
3defrayment of administrative costs and support payments
4obtained shall be deposited into the DHS Recoveries Trust Fund.
5Support payments shall be paid over to the General Assistance
6Fund of the local governmental unit at such time or times as
7the agreement may specify.
8 With respect to those cases in which it has support
9enforcement powers and responsibilities under this Article,
10the Illinois Department may provide by rule for periodic or
11other review of each administrative and court order for support
12to determine whether a modification of the order should be
13sought. The Illinois Department shall provide for and conduct
14such review in accordance with any applicable federal law and
15regulation.
16 As part of its process for review of orders for support,
17the Illinois Department, through written notice, may require
18the responsible relative to disclose his or her Social Security
19Number and past and present information concerning the
20relative's address, employment, gross wages, deductions from
21gross wages, net wages, bonuses, commissions, number of
22dependent exemptions claimed, individual and dependent health
23insurance coverage, and any other information necessary to
24determine the relative's ability to provide support in a case
25receiving child support enforcement services under this
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1 The Illinois Department may send a written request for the
2same information to the relative's employer. The employer shall
3respond to the request for information within 15 days after the
4date the employer receives the request. If the employer
5willfully fails to fully respond within the 15-day period, the
6employer shall pay a penalty of $100 for each day that the
7response is not provided to the Illinois Department after the
815-day period has expired. The penalty may be collected in a
9civil action which may be brought against the employer in favor
10of the Illinois Department.
11 A written request for information sent to an employer
12pursuant to this Section shall consist of (i) a citation of
13this Section as the statutory authority for the request and for
14the employer's obligation to provide the requested
15information, (ii) a returnable form setting forth the
16employer's name and address and listing the name of the
17employee with respect to whom information is requested, and
18(iii) a citation of this Section as the statutory authority
19authorizing the employer to withhold a fee of up to $20 from
20the wages or income to be paid to each responsible relative for
21providing the information to the Illinois Department within the
2215-day period. If the employer is withholding support payments
23from the responsible relative's income pursuant to an order for
24withholding, the employer may withhold the fee provided for in
25this Section only after withholding support as required under
26the order. Any amounts withheld from the responsible relative's

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1income for payment of support and the fee provided for in this
2Section shall not be in excess of the amounts permitted under
3the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act.
4 In a case receiving child support enforcement services, the
5Illinois Department may request and obtain information from a
6particular employer under this Section no more than once in any
712-month period, unless the information is necessary to conduct
8a review of a court or administrative order for support at the
9request of the person receiving child support enforcement
10services.
11 The Illinois Department shall establish and maintain an
12administrative unit to receive and transmit to the Child and
13Spouse Support Unit information supplied by persons applying
14for or receiving child support enforcement services under
15Section 10-1. In addition, the Illinois Department shall
16address and respond to any alleged deficiencies that persons
17receiving or applying for services from the Child and Spouse
18Support Unit may identify concerning the Child and Spouse
19Support Unit's provision of child support enforcement
20services. Within 60 days after an action or failure to act by
21the Child and Spouse Support Unit that affects his or her case,
22a recipient of or applicant for child support enforcement
23services under Article X of this Code may request an
24explanation of the Unit's handling of the case. At the
25requestor's option, the explanation may be provided either
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1Department fails to respond to the request for an explanation
2or fails to respond in a manner satisfactory to the applicant
3or recipient within 30 days from the date of the request for an
4explanation, the applicant or recipient may request a
5conference for further review of the matter by the Office of
6the Administrator of the Child and Spouse Support Unit. A
7request for a conference may be submitted at any time within 60
8days after the explanation has been provided by the Child and
9Spouse Support Unit or within 60 days after the time for
10providing the explanation has expired.
11 The applicant or recipient may request a conference
12concerning any decision denying or terminating child support
13enforcement services under Article X of this Code, and the
14applicant or recipient may also request a conference concerning
15the Unit's failure to provide services or the provision of
16services in an amount or manner that is considered inadequate.
17For purposes of this Section, the Child and Spouse Support Unit
18includes all local governmental units or individuals with whom
19the Illinois Department has contracted under Section 10-3.1.
20 Upon receipt of a timely request for a conference, the
21Office of the Administrator shall review the case. The
22applicant or recipient requesting the conference shall be
23entitled, at his or her option, to appear in person or to
24participate in the conference by telephone. The applicant or
25recipient requesting the conference shall be entitled to be
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1review the Illinois Department's file before or at the
2conference. At the conference, the applicant or recipient
3requesting the conference shall be afforded an opportunity to
4present all relevant matters in support of his or her claim.
5Conferences shall be without cost to the applicant or recipient
6requesting the conference and shall be conducted by a
7representative of the Child or Spouse Support Unit who did not
8participate in the action or inaction being reviewed.
9 The Office of the Administrator shall conduct a conference
10and inform all interested parties, in writing, of the results
11of the conference within 60 days from the date of filing of the
12request for a conference.
13 In addition to its other powers and responsibilities
14established by this Article, the Child and Spouse Support Unit
15shall conduct an annual assessment of each institution's
16program for institution based paternity establishment under
17Section 12 of the Vital Records Act.
18(Source: P.A. 91-24, eff. 7-1-99; 91-613, eff. 10-1-99; 92-16,
19eff. 6-28-01; 92-590, eff. 7-1-02.)
20 (305 ILCS 5/10-16.7)
21 Sec. 10-16.7. Child support enforcement debit
22authorization.
23 (a) For purposes of this Section:
24 "Financial institution" and "account" are defined as set
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1 "Payor" is defined as set forth in Section 15 of the Income
2Withholding for Support Act.
3 "Order for support" means any order for periodic payment of
4funds to the State Disbursement Unit for the support of a child
5or, where applicable, for support of a child and a parent with
6whom the child resides, that is entered or modified under this
7Code or under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
8Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act, the
9Non-Support Punishment Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of
101984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014, or that is entered
11or registered for modification or enforcement under the Uniform
12Interstate Family Support Act.
13 "Obligor" means an individual who owes a duty to make
14payments under an order for support in a case in which child
15support enforcement services are being provided under this
16Article X.
17 (b) The Department of Public Aid (now Healthcare and Family
18Services) shall adopt a child support enforcement debit
19authorization form that, upon being signed by an obligor,
20authorizes a financial institution holding an account on the
21obligor's behalf to debit the obligor's account periodically in
22an amount equal to the amount of child support that the obligor
23is required to pay periodically and transfer that amount to the
24State Disbursement Unit. The form shall include instructions to
25the financial institution concerning the debiting of accounts
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1amounts to the State Disbursement Unit. In adopting the form,
2the Department may consult with the Office of Banks and Real
3Estate and the Department of Financial Institutions. The
4Department must adopt the form within 6 months after the
5effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General
6Assembly. Promptly after adopting the form, the Department must
7notify each financial institution conducting business in this
8State that the form has been adopted and is ready for use.
9 (c) An obligor who does not have a payor may sign a child
10support debit authorization form adopted by the Department
11under this Section. The obligor may sign a form in relation to
12any or all of the financial institutions holding an account on
13the obligor's behalf. Promptly after an obligor signs a child
14support debit authorization form, the Department shall send the
15original signed form to the appropriate financial institution.
16Subject to subsection (e), upon receiving the form, the
17financial institution shall debit the account and transfer the
18debited amounts to the State Disbursement Unit according to the
19instructions in the form. A financial institution that complies
20with a child support debit authorization form signed by an
21obligor and issued under this Section shall not be subject to
22civil liability with respect to any individual or any agency.
23 (d) The signing and issuance of a child support debit
24authorization form under this Section does not relieve the
25obligor from responsibility for compliance with any
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1 (e) A financial institution is obligated to debit the
2account of an obligor pursuant to this Section only if or to
3the extent:
4 (1) the financial institution reasonably believes the
5 debit authorization form is a true and authentic original
6 document;
7 (2) there are finally collected funds in the account;
8 and
9 (3) the account is not subject to offsetting claims of
10 the financial institution, whether due at the time of
11 receipt of the debit authorization form or thereafter to
12 become due and whether liquidated or unliquidated.
13 To the extent the account of the obligor is pledged or held
14by the financial institution as security for a loan or other
15obligation, or that the financial institution has any other
16claim or lien against the account, the financial institution is
17entitled to retain the account.
18(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
19 (305 ILCS 5/10-17) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-17)
20 Sec. 10-17. Other Actions and Remedies for Support. The
21procedures, actions and remedies provided in this Article shall
22in no way be exclusive, but shall be available in addition to
23other actions and remedies of support, including, but not by
24way of limitation, the remedies provided in (a) the Illinois
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1as amended; (b) the "Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act",
2approved June 24, 1915, as amended; (b-5) the Non-Support
3Punishment Act; and (c) the "Revised Uniform Reciprocal
4Enforcement of Support Act", approved August 28, 1969, as
5amended.
6(Source: P.A. 91-613, eff. 10-1-99.)
7 (305 ILCS 5/10-17.7)
8 Sec. 10-17.7. Administrative determination of paternity.
9The Illinois Department may provide by rule for the
10administrative determination of paternity by the Child and
11Spouse Support Unit in cases involving applicants for or
12recipients of financial aid under Article IV of this Act and
13other persons who are given access to the child support
14enforcement services of this Article as provided in Section
1510-1, including persons similarly situated and receiving
16similar services in other states. The rules shall extend to
17cases in which the mother and alleged father voluntarily
18acknowledge paternity in the form required by the Illinois
19Department or agree to be bound by the results of genetic
20testing or in which the alleged father has failed to respond to
21a notification of support obligation issued under Section 10-4
22and to cases of contested paternity. The Illinois Department's
23form for voluntary acknowledgement of paternity shall be the
24same form prepared by the Illinois Department for use under the
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1presumption provided for under the Illinois Parentage Act of
21984 or under the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 on and after
3the effective date of that Act shall apply to cases in which
4paternity is determined under the rules of the Illinois
5Department. The rules shall provide for notice and an
6opportunity to be heard by the responsible relative and the
7person receiving child support enforcement services under this
8Article if paternity is not voluntarily acknowledged, and any
9final administrative decision rendered by the Illinois
10Department shall be reviewed only under and in accordance with
11the Administrative Review Law. Determinations of paternity
12made by the Illinois Department under the rules authorized by
13this Section shall have the full force and effect of a court
14judgment of paternity entered under the Illinois Parentage Act
15of 1984 or under the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
16 In determining paternity in contested cases, the Illinois
17Department shall conduct the evidentiary hearing in accordance
18with Article 4 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 Section 11
19of the Parentage Act of 1984, except that references in that
20Article Section to "the court" shall be deemed to mean the
21Illinois Department's hearing officer in cases in which
22paternity is determined administratively by the Illinois
23Department.
24 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, a
25default determination of paternity may be made if service of
26the notice under Section 10-4 was made by publication under the

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1rules for administrative paternity determination authorized by
2this Section. The rules as they pertain to service by
3publication shall (i) be based on the provisions of Section
42-206 and 2-207 of the Code of Civil Procedure, (ii) provide
5for service by publication in cases in which the whereabouts of
6the alleged father are unknown after diligent location efforts
7by the Child and Spouse Support Unit, and (iii) provide for
8publication of a notice of default paternity determination in
9the same manner that the notice under Section 10-4 was
10published.
11 The Illinois Department may implement this Section through
12the use of emergency rules in accordance with Section 5-45 of
13the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. For purposes of the
14Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the adoption of rules to
15implement this Section shall be considered an emergency and
16necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare.
17(Source: P.A. 96-333, eff. 8-11-09; 96-474, eff. 8-14-09.)
18 (305 ILCS 5/10-19) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-19)
19 Sec. 10-19. Support Payments Ordered Under Other Laws;
20where deposited. The Illinois Department and local
21governmental units are authorized to receive payments directed
22by court order for the support of recipients, as provided in
23the following Acts:
24 1. "Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act", approved June
2524, 1915, as amended,

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1 1.5. The Non-Support Punishment Act,
2 2. "Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act", as
3now or hereafter amended,
4 3. The Illinois Parentage Act, as amended,
5 3.5. The Illinois Parentage Act of 2014,
6 4. "Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support
7Act", approved August 28, 1969, as amended,
8 5. The Juvenile Court Act or the Juvenile Court Act of
91987, as amended,
10 6. The "Unified Code of Corrections", approved July 26,
111972, as amended,
12 7. Part 7 of Article XII of the Code of Civil Procedure, as
13amended,
14 8. Part 8 of Article XII of the Code of Civil Procedure, as
15amended, and
16 9. Other laws which may provide by judicial order for
17direct payment of support moneys.
18 Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department
19pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program established
20by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be paid into the
21Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All payments under this
22Section to the Illinois Department of Human Services shall be
23deposited in the DHS Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements from
24these funds shall be as provided in Sections 12-9.1 and 12-10.2
25of this Code. Payments received by a local governmental unit
26shall be deposited in that unit's General Assistance Fund.

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1 To the extent the provisions of this Section are
2inconsistent with the requirements pertaining to the State
3Disbursement Unit under Sections 10-10.4 and 10-26 of this
4Code, the requirements pertaining to the State Disbursement
5Unit shall apply.
6(Source: P.A. 91-24, eff. 7-1-99; 91-212, eff. 7-20-99; 91-613,
7eff. 10-1-99; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
8 (305 ILCS 5/10-25)
9 Sec. 10-25. Administrative liens and levies on real
10property for past-due child support.
11 (a) Notwithstanding any other State or local law to the
12contrary, the State shall have a lien on all legal and
13equitable interests of responsible relatives in their real
14property in the amount of past-due child support owing pursuant
15to an order for child support entered under Sections 10-10 and
1610-11 of this Code, or under the Illinois Marriage and
17Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
18Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Uniform
19Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of
201984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
21 (b) The Illinois Department shall provide by rule for
22notice to and an opportunity to be heard by each responsible
23relative affected, and any final administrative decision
24rendered by the Illinois Department shall be reviewed only
25under and in accordance with the Administrative Review Law.

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1 (c) When enforcing a lien under subsection (a) of this
2Section, the Illinois Department shall have the authority to
3execute notices of administrative liens and levies, which shall
4contain the name and address of the responsible relative, a
5legal description of the real property to be levied, the fact
6that a lien is being claimed for past-due child support, and
7such other information as the Illinois Department may by rule
8prescribe. The Illinois Department shall record the notice of
9lien with the recorder or registrar of titles of the county or
10counties in which the real estate is located.
11 (d) The State's lien under subsection (a) shall be
12enforceable upon the recording or filing of a notice of lien
13with the recorder or registrar of titles of the county or
14counties in which the real estate is located. The lien shall be
15prior to any lien thereafter recorded or filed and shall be
16notice to a subsequent purchaser, assignor, or encumbrancer of
17the existence and nature of the lien. The lien shall be
18inferior to the lien of general taxes, special assessment, and
19special taxes heretofore or hereafter levied by any political
20subdivision or municipal corporation of the State.
21 In the event that title to the land to be affected by the
22notice of lien is registered under the Registered Titles
23(Torrens) Act, the notice shall be filed in the office of the
24registrar of titles as a memorial or charge upon each folium of
25the register of titles affected by the notice; but the State
26shall not have a preference over the rights of any bona fide

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1purchaser, mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien holders
2registered prior to the registration of the notice.
3 (e) The recorder or registrar of titles of each county
4shall procure a file labeled "Child Support Lien Notices" and
5an index book labeled "Child Support Lien Notices". When notice
6of any lien is presented to the recorder or registrar of titles
7for filing, the recorder or registrar of titles shall file it
8in numerical order in the file and shall enter it
9alphabetically in the index. The entry shall show the name and
10last known address of the person named in the notice, the
11serial number of the notice, the date and hour of filing, and
12the amount of child support due at the time when the lien is
13filed.
14 (f) The Illinois Department shall not be required to
15furnish bond or make a deposit for or pay any costs or fees of
16any court or officer thereof in any legal proceeding involving
17the lien.
18 (g) To protect the lien of the State for past-due child
19support, the Illinois Department may, from funds that are
20available for that purpose, pay or provide for the payment of
21necessary or essential repairs, purchase tax certificates, pay
22balances due on land contracts, or pay or cause to be satisfied
23any prior liens on the property to which the lien hereunder
24applies.
25 (h) A lien on real property under this Section shall be
26released pursuant to Section 12-101 of the Code of Civil

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1Procedure.
2 (i) The Illinois Department, acting in behalf of the State,
3may foreclose the lien in a judicial proceeding to the same
4extent and in the same manner as in the enforcement of other
5liens. The process, practice, and procedure for the foreclosure
6shall be the same as provided in the Code of Civil Procedure.
7(Source: P.A. 97-186, eff. 7-22-11.)
8 (305 ILCS 5/10-25.5)
9 Sec. 10-25.5. Administrative liens and levies on personal
10property for past-due child support.
11 (a) Notwithstanding any other State or local law to the
12contrary, the State shall have a lien on all legal and
13equitable interests of responsible relatives in their personal
14property, including any account in a financial institution as
15defined in Section 10-24, or in the case of an insurance
16company or benefit association only in accounts as defined in
17Section 10-24, in the amount of past-due child support owing
18pursuant to an order for child support entered under Sections
1910-10 and 10-11 of this Code, or under the Illinois Marriage
20and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
21Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Uniform
22Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of
231984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
24 (b) The Illinois Department shall provide by rule for
25notice to and an opportunity to be heard by each responsible

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1relative affected, and any final administrative decision
2rendered by the Illinois Department shall be reviewed only
3under and in accordance with the Administrative Review Law.
4 (c) When enforcing a lien under subsection (a) of this
5Section, the Illinois Department shall have the authority to
6execute notices of administrative liens and levies, which shall
7contain the name and address of the responsible relative, a
8description of the property to be levied, the fact that a lien
9is being claimed for past-due child support, and such other
10information as the Illinois Department may by rule prescribe.
11The Illinois Department may serve the notice of lien or levy
12upon any financial institution where the accounts as defined in
13Section 10-24 of the responsible relative may be held, for
14encumbrance or surrender of the accounts as defined in Section
1510-24 by the financial institution.
16 (d) The Illinois Department shall enforce its lien against
17the responsible relative's personal property, other than
18accounts as defined in Section 10-24 in financial institutions,
19and levy upon such personal property in the manner provided for
20enforcement of judgments contained in Article XII of the Code
21of Civil Procedure.
22 (e) The Illinois Department shall not be required to
23furnish bond or make a deposit for or pay any costs or fees of
24any court or officer thereof in any legal proceeding involving
25the lien.
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1support, the Illinois Department may, from funds that are
2available for that purpose, pay or provide for the payment of
3necessary or essential repairs, purchase tax certificates, or
4pay or cause to be satisfied any prior liens on the property to
5which the lien hereunder applies.
6 (g) A lien on personal property under this Section shall be
7released in the manner provided under Article XII of the Code
8of Civil Procedure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a lien under
9this Section on accounts as defined in Section 10-24 shall
10expire upon the passage of 120 days from the date of issuance
11of the Notice of Lien or Levy by the Illinois Department.
12However, the lien shall remain in effect during the pendency of
13any appeal or protest.
14 (h) A lien created under this Section is subordinate to any
15prior lien of the financial institution or any prior lien
16holder or any prior right of set-off that the financial
17institution may have against the assets, or in the case of an
18insurance company or benefit association only in the accounts
19as defined in Section 10-24.
20 (i) A financial institution has no obligation under this
21Section to hold, encumber, or surrender the assets, or in the
22case of an insurance company or benefit association only the
23accounts as defined in Section 10-24, until the financial
24institution has been properly served with a subpoena, summons,
25warrant, court or administrative order, or administrative lien
26and levy requiring that action.

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1(Source: P.A. 97-186, eff. 7-22-11.)
2 (305 ILCS 5/10-27)
3 Sec. 10-27. State Case Registry.
4 (a) The Illinois Department shall establish an automated
5State Case Registry to contain records concerning child support
6orders for parties receiving child support enforcement
7services under this Article X, and for all child support orders
8entered or modified on or after October 1, 1998. The State Case
9Registry shall include (i) the information filed with the
10Illinois Department, or filed with the clerk of the circuit
11court and provided to the Illinois Department, under the
12provisions of Sections 10-10.5 and 10-11.2 of this Code,
13Section 505.3 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
14Marriage Act, Section 30 of the Non-Support Punishment Act, and
15Section 803 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014, and Section
1614.1 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, and (ii) any other
17information required under Title IV, Part D of the Social
18Security Act or by the federal Department of Health and Human
19Services.
20 (b) (Blank).
21 (c) The Illinois Department shall maintain the following
22payment information on child support orders for parties
23receiving child support enforcement services under this
24Article X:
25 (1) the amount of monthly or other periodic support

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1 owed under the order and other amounts, including
2 arrearages, interest or late payment penalties, and fees,
3 due or overdue under the order;
4 (2) any amounts described in subdivision (1) of
5 subsection (d) that have been collected;
6 (3) the distribution of the collected amounts; and
7 (4) the amount of any lien imposed with respect to the
8 order pursuant to Section 10-25 or Section 10-25.5 of this
9 Code.
10 (d) The Illinois Department shall establish, update,
11maintain, and monitor case records in the Registry of parties
12receiving child support enforcement services under this
13Article X, on the bases of:
14 (1) information on administrative actions and
15 administrative and judicial proceedings and orders
16 relating to paternity and support;
17 (2) information obtained from comparison with federal,
18 State, and local sources of information;
19 (3) information on support collections and
20 distribution; and
21 (4) any other relevant information.
22 (e) The Illinois Department shall use the automated State
23Case Registry to share and compare information with, and
24receive information from, other data bases and information
25comparison services in order to obtain (or provide) information
26necessary to enable the Illinois Department (or the federal

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1Department of Health and Human Services or other State or
2federal agencies) to carry out the requirements of the child
3support enforcement program established under Title IV, Part D
4of the Social Security Act. Such information comparison
5activities shall include the following:
6 (1) Furnishing to the Federal Case Registry of Child
7 Support Orders (and updating as necessary, with
8 information including notice of expiration of orders) the
9 information specified by the federal Department of Health
10 and Human Services in regulations.
11 (2) Exchanging information with the Federal Parent
12 Locator Service for the purposes specified in Section 453
13 of the Social Security Act.
14 (3) Exchanging information with State agencies (of
15 this State and of other states) administering programs
16 funded under Title IV, Part A and Title XIX of the Social
17 Security Act and other programs designated by the federal
18 Department of Health and Human Services, as necessary to
19 perform responsibilities under Title IV, Part D of the
20 Social Security Act and under such other programs.
21 (4) Exchanging information with other agencies of this
22 State, agencies of other states, and interstate
23 information networks, as necessary and appropriate to
24 carry out (or assist other states to carry out) the
25 purposes of Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act.
26 (5) Disclosing information to any other entities as

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1 required under Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act.
2 (f) The Illinois Department shall adopt rules establishing
3safeguards, applicable to all confidential information
4included in the State Case Registry, that are designed to
5protect the privacy rights of persons concerning whom
6information is on record in the State Case Registry. Such
7safeguards shall include, but not be limited to the following:
8 (1) Prohibitions against the release of information on
9 the whereabouts of one party or the child to another party
10 against whom a protective order with respect to the former
11 party or the child has been entered.
12 (2) Prohibitions against the release of information on
13 the whereabouts of one party or the child to another party
14 if the Illinois Department has reasonable evidence of
15 domestic violence or child abuse (that is, allegations of
16 domestic violence or child abuse, unless the Illinois
17 Department has an independent, reasonable basis to find the
18 person making the allegation not credible) to the former
19 party or child by the party requesting information.
20 (3) Prohibitions against the release of information on
21 the whereabouts of one party or the child to another person
22 if the Illinois Department has reason to believe the
23 release of information to that person may result in
24 physical or emotional harm to the party or child.
25(Source: P.A. 92-463, eff. 8-22-01.)

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1 (305 ILCS 5/12-4.7c)
2 Sec. 12-4.7c. Exchange of information after July 1, 1997.
3 (a) The Department of Human Services shall exchange with
4the Department of Healthcare and Family Services information
5that may be necessary for the enforcement of child support
6orders entered pursuant to Sections 10-10 and 10-11 of this
7Code or pursuant to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
8Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act, the
9Non-Support Punishment Act, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal
10Enforcement of Support Act, the Uniform Interstate Family
11Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, or the
12Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
13 (b) Notwithstanding any provisions in this Code to the
14contrary, the Department of Human Services shall not be liable
15to any person for any disclosure of information to the
16Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
17Illinois Department of Public Aid) under subsection (a) or for
18any other action taken in good faith to comply with the
19requirements of subsection (a).
20(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
21 Section 957. The Genetic Information Privacy Act is amended
22by changing Sections 22 and 30 as follows:
23 (410 ILCS 513/22)
24 Sec. 22. Tests to determine inherited characteristics in

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1paternity proceedings. Nothing in this Act shall be construed
2to affect or restrict in any way the ordering of or use of
3results from deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing or other tests
4to determine inherited characteristics by the court in a
5judicial proceeding under the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 or
6under the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 on and after the
7effective date of that Act or by the Department of Healthcare
8and Family Services in an administrative paternity proceeding
9under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code and rules
10promulgated under that Article.
11(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
12 (410 ILCS 513/30)
13 Sec. 30. Disclosure of person tested and test results.
14 (a) No person may disclose or be compelled to disclose the
15identity of any person upon whom a genetic test is performed or
16the results of a genetic test in a manner that permits
17identification of the subject of the test, except to the
18following persons:
19 (1) The subject of the test or the subject's legally
20 authorized representative. This paragraph does not create
21 a duty or obligation under which a health care provider
22 must notify the subject's spouse or legal guardian of the
23 test results, and no such duty or obligation shall be
24 implied. No civil liability or criminal sanction under this
25 Act shall be imposed for any disclosure or nondisclosure of

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1 a test result to a spouse by a physician acting in good
2 faith under this paragraph. For the purpose of any
3 proceedings, civil or criminal, the good faith of any
4 physician acting under this paragraph shall be presumed.
5 (2) Any person designated in a specific written legally
6 effective release of the test results executed by the
7 subject of the test or the subject's legally authorized
8 representative.
9 (3) An authorized agent or employee of a health
10 facility or health care provider if the health facility or
11 health care provider itself is authorized to obtain the
12 test results, the agent or employee provides patient care,
13 and the agent or employee has a need to know the
14 information in order to conduct the tests or provide care
15 or treatment.
16 (4) A health facility or health care provider that
17 procures, processes, distributes, or uses:
18 (A) a human body part from a deceased person with
19 respect to medical information regarding that person;
20 or
21 (B) semen provided prior to the effective date of
22 this Act for the purpose of artificial insemination.
23 (5) Health facility staff committees for the purposes
24 of conducting program monitoring, program evaluation, or
25 service reviews.
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1 health care provider who ordered the test shall make a
2 reasonable effort to notify the minor's parent or legal
3 guardian if, in the professional judgment of the health
4 care provider, notification would be in the best interest
5 of the minor and the health care provider has first sought
6 unsuccessfully to persuade the minor to notify the parent
7 or legal guardian or after a reasonable time after the
8 minor has agreed to notify the parent or legal guardian,
9 the health care provider has reason to believe that the
10 minor has not made the notification. This paragraph shall
11 not create a duty or obligation under which a health care
12 provider must notify the minor's parent or legal guardian
13 of the test results, nor shall a duty or obligation be
14 implied. No civil liability or criminal sanction under this
15 Act shall be imposed for any notification or
16 non-notification of a minor's test result by a health care
17 provider acting in good faith under this paragraph. For the
18 purpose of any proceeding, civil or criminal, the good
19 faith of any health care provider acting under this
20 paragraph shall be presumed.
21 (7) All information and records held by a State agency
22 or local health authority pertaining to genetic
23 information shall be strictly confidential and exempt from
24 copying and inspection under the Freedom of Information
25 Act. The information and records shall not be released or
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1 and shall not be admissible as evidence nor discoverable in
2 any action of any kind in any court or before any tribunal,
3 board, agency, or person and shall be treated in the same
4 manner as the information and those records subject to the
5 provisions of Part 21 of Article VIII of the Code of Civil
6 Procedure except under the following circumstances:
7 (A) when made with the written consent of all
8 persons to whom the information pertains;
9 (B) when authorized by Section 5-4-3 of the Unified
10 Code of Corrections;
11 (C) when made for the sole purpose of implementing
12 the Newborn Metabolic Screening Act and rules; or
13 (D) when made under the authorization of the
14 Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984.
15 Disclosure shall be limited to those who have a need to
16know the information, and no additional disclosures may be
17made.
18 (b) Disclosure by an insurer in accordance with the
19requirements of the Article XL of the Illinois Insurance Code
20shall be deemed compliance with this Section.
21(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)
22 Section 958. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing
23Sections 12 and 24 as follows:
24 (410 ILCS 535/12)

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1 Sec. 12. Live births; place of registration.
2 (1) Each live birth which occurs in this State shall be
3registered with the local or subregistrar of the district in
4which the birth occurred as provided in this Section, within 7
5days after the birth. When a birth occurs on a moving
6conveyance, the city, village, township, or road district in
7which the child is first removed from the conveyance shall be
8considered the place of birth and a birth certificate shall be
9filed in the registration district in which the place is
10located.
11 (2) When a birth occurs in an institution, the person in
12charge of the institution or his designated representative
13shall obtain and record all the personal and statistical
14particulars relative to the parents of the child that are
15required to properly complete the live birth certificate; shall
16secure the required personal signatures on the hospital
17worksheet; shall prepare the certificate from this worksheet;
18and shall file the certificate with the local registrar. The
19institution shall retain the hospital worksheet permanently or
20as otherwise specified by rule. The physician in attendance
21shall verify or provide the date of birth and medical
22information required by the certificate, within 24 hours after
23the birth occurs.
24 (3) When a birth occurs outside an institution, the
25certificate shall be prepared and filed by one of the following
26in the indicated order of priority:

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1 (a) The physician in attendance at or immediately after
2 the birth, or in the absence of such a person,
3 (b) Any other person in attendance at or immediately
4 after the birth, or in the absence of such a person,
5 (c) The father, the mother, or in the absence of the
6 father and the inability of the mother, the person in
7 charge of the premises where the birth occurred.
8 (4) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, if the mother
9was not married to the father of the child at either the time
10of conception or the time of birth, the name of the father
11shall be entered on the child's birth certificate only if the
12mother and the person to be named as the father have signed an
13acknowledgment of parentage in accordance with subsection (5).
14 Unless otherwise provided in this Act, if the mother was
15married at the time of conception or birth and the presumed
16father (that is, the mother's husband) is not the biological
17father of the child, the name of the biological father shall be
18entered on the child's birth certificate only if, in accordance
19with subsection (5), (i) the mother and the person to be named
20as the father have signed an acknowledgment of parentage and
21(ii) the mother and presumed father have signed a denial of
22paternity.
23 (5) Upon the birth of a child to an unmarried woman, or
24upon the birth of a child to a woman who was married at the time
25of conception or birth and whose husband is not the biological
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1the local registrar or county clerk after the birth shall do
2the following:
3 (a) Provide (i) an opportunity for the child's mother
4 and father to sign an acknowledgment of parentage and (ii)
5 if the presumed father is not the biological father, an
6 opportunity for the mother and presumed father to sign a
7 denial of paternity. The signing and witnessing of the
8 acknowledgment of parentage or, if the presumed father of
9 the child is not the biological father, the acknowledgment
10 of parentage and denial of paternity conclusively
11 establishes a parent and child relationship in accordance
12 with Sections 5 and 6 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984
13 and with the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 on and after
14 the effective date of that Act.
15 The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
16 furnish the acknowledgment of parentage and denial of
17 paternity form to institutions, county clerks, and State
18 and local registrars' offices. The form shall include
19 instructions to send the original signed and witnessed
20 acknowledgment of parentage and denial of paternity to the
21 Department of Healthcare and Family Services. The
22 acknowledgement of paternity and denial of paternity form
23 shall also include a statement informing the mother, the
24 alleged father, and the presumed father, if any, that they
25 have the right to request deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tests
26 regarding the issue of the child's paternity and that by

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1 signing the form, they expressly waive such tests. The
2 statement shall be set forth in bold-face capital letters
3 not less than 0.25 inches in height.
4 (b) Provide the following documents, furnished by the
5 Department of Healthcare and Family Services, to the
6 child's mother, biological father, and (if the person
7 presumed to be the child's father is not the biological
8 father) presumed father for their review at the time the
9 opportunity is provided to establish a parent and child
10 relationship:
11 (i) An explanation of the implications of,
12 alternatives to, legal consequences of, and the rights
13 and responsibilities that arise from signing an
14 acknowledgment of parentage and, if necessary, a
15 denial of paternity, including an explanation of the
16 parental rights and responsibilities of child support,
17 visitation, custody, retroactive support, health
18 insurance coverage, and payment of birth expenses.
19 (ii) An explanation of the benefits of having a
20 child's parentage established and the availability of
21 parentage establishment and child support enforcement
22 services.
23 (iii) A request for an application for child
24 support enforcement services from the Department of
25 Healthcare and Family Services.
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1 speak, either by telephone or in person, with staff of
2 the Department of Healthcare and Family Services who
3 are trained to clarify information and answer
4 questions about paternity establishment.
5 (v) Instructions for completing and signing the
6 acknowledgment of parentage and denial of paternity.
7 (c) Provide an oral explanation of the documents and
8 instructions set forth in subdivision (5)(b), including an
9 explanation of the implications of, alternatives to, legal
10 consequences of, and the rights and responsibilities that
11 arise from signing an acknowledgment of parentage and, if
12 necessary, a denial of paternity. The oral explanation may
13 be given in person or through the use of video or audio
14 equipment.
15 (6) The institution, State or local registrar, or county
16clerk shall provide an opportunity for the child's father or
17mother to sign a rescission of parentage. The signing and
18witnessing of the rescission of parentage voids the
19acknowledgment of parentage and nullifies the presumption of
20paternity if executed and filed with the Department of
21Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department
22of Public Aid) within the time frame contained in Section 5 of
23the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 or Section 307 of the
24Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 on and after the effective date
25of that Act. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services
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1county clerks, and State and local registrars' offices. The
2form shall include instructions to send the original signed and
3witnessed rescission of parentage to the Department of
4Healthcare and Family Services.
5 (7) An acknowledgment of paternity signed pursuant to
6Section 6 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 or Section 302
7of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 on and after the
8effective date of that Act may be challenged in court only on
9the basis of fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact, with
10the burden of proof upon the challenging party. Pending outcome
11of a challenge to the acknowledgment of paternity, the legal
12responsibilities of the signatories shall remain in full force
13and effect, except upon order of the court upon a showing of
14good cause.
15 (8) When the process for acknowledgment of parentage as
16provided for under subsection (5) establishes the paternity of
17a child whose certificate of birth is on file in another state,
18the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall forward
19a copy of the acknowledgment of parentage, the denial of
20paternity, if applicable, and the rescission of parentage, if
21applicable, to the birth record agency of the state where the
22child's certificate of birth is on file.
23 (9) In the event the parent-child relationship has been
24established in accordance with subdivision (a)(1) of Section 6
25of the Parentage Act of 1984, the names of the biological
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1the child's birth certificate, and the names of the surrogate
2mother and surrogate mother's husband, if any, shall not be on
3the birth certificate.
4(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-333, eff. 8-11-09;
596-474, eff. 8-14-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
6 (410 ILCS 535/24) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-24)
7 Sec. 24. (1) To protect the integrity of vital records, to
8insure their proper use, and to insure the efficient and proper
9administration of the vital records system, access to vital
10records, and indexes thereof, including vital records in the
11custody of local registrars and county clerks originating prior
12to January 1, 1916, is limited to the custodian and his
13employees, and then only for administrative purposes, except
14that the indexes of those records in the custody of local
15registrars and county clerks, originating prior to January 1,
161916, shall be made available to persons for the purpose of
17genealogical research. Original, photographic or
18microphotographic reproductions of original records of births
19100 years old and older and deaths 50 years old and older, and
20marriage records 75 years old and older on file in the State
21Office of Vital Records and in the custody of the county clerks
22may be made available for inspection in the Illinois State
23Archives reference area, Illinois Regional Archives
24Depositories, and other libraries approved by the Illinois
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1Archives, provided that the photographic or microphotographic
2copies are made at no cost to the county or to the State of
3Illinois. It is unlawful for any custodian to permit inspection
4of, or to disclose information contained in, vital records, or
5to copy or permit to be copied, all or part of any such record
6except as authorized by this Act or regulations adopted
7pursuant thereto.
8 (2) The State Registrar of Vital Records, or his agent, and
9any municipal, county, multi-county, public health district,
10or regional health officer recognized by the Department may
11examine vital records for the purpose only of carrying out the
12public health programs and responsibilities under his
13jurisdiction.
14 (3) The State Registrar of Vital Records, may disclose, or
15authorize the disclosure of, data contained in the vital
16records when deemed essential for bona fide research purposes
17which are not for private gain.
18 This amendatory Act of 1973 does not apply to any home rule
19unit.
20 (4) The State Registrar shall exchange with the Department
21of Healthcare and Family Services information that may be
22necessary for the establishment of paternity and the
23establishment, modification, and enforcement of child support
24orders entered pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the
25Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the
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1Punishment Act, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of
2Support Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or the
3Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act
4of 2014. Notwithstanding any provisions in this Act to the
5contrary, the State Registrar shall not be liable to any person
6for any disclosure of information to the Department of
7Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department
8of Public Aid) under this subsection or for any other action
9taken in good faith to comply with the requirements of this
10subsection.
11(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
12 Section 959. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
13changing Sections 2-109.1 and 7-703 as follows:
14 (625 ILCS 5/2-109.1)
15 Sec. 2-109.1. Exchange of information.
16 (a) The Secretary of State shall exchange information with
17the Department of Healthcare and Family Services which may be
18necessary for the establishment of paternity and the
19establishment, modification, and enforcement of child support
20orders pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois
21Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
22Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the
23Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the
24Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois

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1Parentage Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
2 (b) Notwithstanding any provisions in this Code to the
3contrary, the Secretary of State shall not be liable to any
4person for any disclosure of information to the Department of
5Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department
6of Public Aid) under subsection (a) or for any other action
7taken in good faith to comply with the requirements of
8subsection (a).
9(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
10 (625 ILCS 5/7-703)
11 Sec. 7-703. Courts to report non-payment of court ordered
12support or orders concerning driving privileges.
13 (a) The clerk of the circuit court, as provided in
14subsection (b) of Section 505 of the Illinois Marriage and
15Dissolution of Marriage Act or as provided in Section 15 of the
16Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984, shall forward to the
17Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by the Secretary, an
18authenticated document certifying the court's order suspending
19the driving privileges of the obligor. For any such
20certification, the clerk of the court shall charge the obligor
21a fee of $5 as provided in the Clerks of Courts Act.
22 (b) If an obligor has been adjudicated in arrears in court
23ordered child support payments in an amount equal to 90 days
24obligation or more but has not been held in contempt of court,
25the circuit court may order that the obligor's driving

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1privileges be suspended. If the circuit court orders that the
2obligor's driving privileges be suspended, it shall forward to
3the Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by the Secretary,
4an authenticated document certifying the court's order
5suspending the driving privileges of the obligor. The
6authenticated document shall be forwarded to the Secretary of
7State by the court no later than 45 days after entry of the
8order suspending the obligor's driving privileges.
9 (c) The clerk of the circuit court, as provided in
10subsection (c-1) of Section 607.1 of the Illinois Marriage and
11Dissolution of Marriage Act, shall forward to the Secretary of
12State, on a form prescribed by the Secretary, an authenticated
13document certifying the court's order suspending the driving
14privileges of the party. For any such certification, the clerk
15of the court shall charge the party a fee of $5 as provided in
16the Clerks of Courts Act.
17 (d) If a party has been adjudicated to have engaged in
18visitation abuse, the circuit court may order that the party's
19driving privileges be suspended. If the circuit court orders
20that the party's driving privileges be suspended, it shall
21forward to the Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by the
22Secretary, an authenticated document certifying the court's
23order suspending the driving privileges of the party. The
24authenticated document shall be forwarded to the Secretary of
25State by the court no later than 45 days after entry of the
26order suspending the party's driving privileges.

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1(Source: P.A. 97-1047, eff. 8-21-12.)
2 Section 960. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by
3changing Section 27.1a as follows:
4 (705 ILCS 105/27.1a) (from Ch. 25, par. 27.1a)
5 Sec. 27.1a. The fees of the clerks of the circuit court in
6all counties having a population of not more than 500,000
7inhabitants in the instances described in this Section shall be
8as provided in this Section. In those instances where a minimum
9and maximum fee is stated, the clerk of the circuit court must
10charge the minimum fee listed and may charge up to the maximum
11fee if the county board has by resolution increased the fee.
12The fees shall be paid in advance and shall be as follows:
13(a) Civil Cases.
14 The fee for filing a complaint, petition, or other
15 pleading initiating a civil action, with the following
16 exceptions, shall be a minimum of $40 and a maximum of
17 $160.
18 (A) When the amount of money or damages or the
19 value of personal property claimed does not exceed
20 $250, $10.
21 (B) When that amount exceeds $250 but does not
22 exceed $500, a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $20.
23 (C) When that amount exceeds $500 but does not
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1 (D) When that amount exceeds $2500 but does not
2 exceed $15,000, a minimum of $25 and a maximum of $75.
3 (E) For the exercise of eminent domain, a minimum
4 of $45 and a maximum of $150. For each additional lot
5 or tract of land or right or interest therein subject
6 to be condemned, the damages in respect to which shall
7 require separate assessment by a jury, a minimum of $45
8 and a maximum of $150.
9(a-1) Family.
10 For filing a petition under the Juvenile Court Act of
11 1987, $25.
12 For filing a petition for a marriage license, $10.
13 For performing a marriage in court, $10.
14 For filing a petition under the Illinois Parentage Act
15 of 2014 1984, $40.
16(b) Forcible Entry and Detainer.
17 In each forcible entry and detainer case when the
18 plaintiff seeks possession only or unites with his or her
19 claim for possession of the property a claim for rent or
20 damages or both in the amount of $15,000 or less, a minimum
21 of $10 and a maximum of $50. When the plaintiff unites his
22 or her claim for possession with a claim for rent or
23 damages or both exceeding $15,000, a minimum of $40 and a
24 maximum of $160.
25(c) Counterclaim or Joining Third Party Defendant.
26 When any defendant files a counterclaim as part of his

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1 or her answer or otherwise or joins another party as a
2 third party defendant, or both, the defendant shall pay a
3 fee for each counterclaim or third party action in an
4 amount equal to the fee he or she would have had to pay had
5 he or she brought a separate action for the relief sought
6 in the counterclaim or against the third party defendant,
7 less the amount of the appearance fee, if that has been
8 paid.
9(d) Confession of Judgment.
10 In a confession of judgment when the amount does not
11 exceed $1500, a minimum of $20 and a maximum of $50. When
12 the amount exceeds $1500, but does not exceed $15,000, a
13 minimum of $40 and a maximum of $115. When the amount
14 exceeds $15,000, a minimum of $40 and a maximum of $200.
15(e) Appearance.
16 The fee for filing an appearance in each civil case
17 shall be a minimum of $15 and a maximum of $60, except as
18 follows:
19 (A) When the plaintiff in a forcible entry and
20 detainer case seeks possession only, a minimum of $10
21 and a maximum of $50.
22 (B) When the amount in the case does not exceed
23 $1500, a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $30.
24 (C) When that amount exceeds $1500 but does not
25 exceed $15,000, a minimum of $15 and a maximum of $60.
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1 In garnishment affidavit, wage deduction affidavit,
2 and citation petition when the amount does not exceed
3 $1,000, a minimum of $5 and a maximum of $15; when the
4 amount exceeds $1,000 but does not exceed $5,000, a minimum
5 of $5 and a maximum of $30; and when the amount exceeds
6 $5,000, a minimum of $5 and a maximum of $50.
7(g) Petition to Vacate or Modify.
8 (1) Petition to vacate or modify any final judgment or
9 order of court, except in forcible entry and detainer cases
10 and small claims cases or a petition to reopen an estate,
11 to modify, terminate, or enforce a judgment or order for
12 child or spousal support, or to modify, suspend, or
13 terminate an order for withholding, if filed before 30 days
14 after the entry of the judgment or order, a minimum of $20
15 and a maximum of $50.
16 (2) Petition to vacate or modify any final judgment or
17 order of court, except a petition to modify, terminate, or
18 enforce a judgment or order for child or spousal support or
19 to modify, suspend, or terminate an order for withholding,
20 if filed later than 30 days after the entry of the judgment
21 or order, a minimum of $20 and a maximum of $75.
22 (3) Petition to vacate order of bond forfeiture, a
23 minimum of $10 and a maximum of $40.
24(h) Mailing.
25 When the clerk is required to mail, the fee will be a
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1 postage.
2(i) Certified Copies.
3 Each certified copy of a judgment after the first,
4 except in small claims and forcible entry and detainer
5 cases, a minimum of $2 and a maximum of $10.
6(j) Habeas Corpus.
7 For filing a petition for relief by habeas corpus, a
8 minimum of $60 and a maximum of $100.
9(k) Certification, Authentication, and Reproduction.
10 (1) Each certification or authentication for taking
11 the acknowledgment of a deed or other instrument in writing
12 with the seal of office, a minimum of $2 and a maximum of
13 $6.
14 (2) Court appeals when original documents are
15 forwarded, under 100 pages, plus delivery and costs, a
16 minimum of $20 and a maximum of $60.
17 (3) Court appeals when original documents are
18 forwarded, over 100 pages, plus delivery and costs, a
19 minimum of $50 and a maximum of $150.
20 (4) Court appeals when original documents are
21 forwarded, over 200 pages, an additional fee of a minimum
22 of 20 cents and a maximum of 25 cents per page.
23 (5) For reproduction of any document contained in the
24 clerk's files:
25 (A) First page, a minimum of $1 and a maximum of
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1 (B) Next 19 pages, 50 cents per page.
2 (C) All remaining pages, 25 cents per page.
3(l) Remands.
4 In any cases remanded to the Circuit Court from the
5 Supreme Court or the Appellate Court for a new trial, the
6 clerk shall file the remanding order and reinstate the case
7 with either its original number or a new number. The Clerk
8 shall not charge any new or additional fee for the
9 reinstatement. Upon reinstatement the Clerk shall advise
10 the parties of the reinstatement. A party shall have the
11 same right to a jury trial on remand and reinstatement as
12 he or she had before the appeal, and no additional or new
13 fee or charge shall be made for a jury trial after remand.
14(m) Record Search.
15 For each record search, within a division or municipal
16 district, the clerk shall be entitled to a search fee of a
17 minimum of $4 and a maximum of $6 for each year searched.
18(n) Hard Copy.
19 For each page of hard copy print output, when case
20 records are maintained on an automated medium, the clerk
21 shall be entitled to a fee of a minimum of $4 and a maximum
22 of $6.
23(o) Index Inquiry and Other Records.
24 No fee shall be charged for a single
25 plaintiff/defendant index inquiry or single case record
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1 are maintained in a current automated medium, and when no
2 hard copy print output is requested. The fees to be charged
3 for management records, multiple case records, and
4 multiple journal records may be specified by the Chief
5 Judge pursuant to the guidelines for access and
6 dissemination of information approved by the Supreme
7 Court.
8(p) (Blank).
9(q) Alias Summons.
10 For each alias summons or citation issued by the clerk,
11 a minimum of $2 and a maximum of $5.
12(r) Other Fees.
13 Any fees not covered in this Section shall be set by
14 rule or administrative order of the Circuit Court with the
15 approval of the Administrative Office of the Illinois
16 Courts.
17 The clerk of the circuit court may provide additional
18 services for which there is no fee specified by statute in
19 connection with the operation of the clerk's office as may
20 be requested by the public and agreed to by the clerk and
21 approved by the chief judge of the circuit court. Any
22 charges for additional services shall be as agreed to
23 between the clerk and the party making the request and
24 approved by the chief judge of the circuit court. Nothing
25 in this subsection shall be construed to require any clerk
26 to provide any service not otherwise required by law.

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1(s) Jury Services.
2 The clerk shall be entitled to receive, in addition to
3 other fees allowed by law, the sum of a minimum of $62.50
4 and a maximum of $212.50, as a fee for the services of a
5 jury in every civil action not quasi-criminal in its nature
6 and not a proceeding for the exercise of the right of
7 eminent domain and in every other action wherein the right
8 of trial by jury is or may be given by law. The jury fee
9 shall be paid by the party demanding a jury at the time of
10 filing the jury demand. If the fee is not paid by either
11 party, no jury shall be called in the action or proceeding,
12 and the same shall be tried by the court without a jury.
13(t) Voluntary Assignment.
14 For filing each deed of voluntary assignment, a minimum
15 of $10 and a maximum of $20; for recording the same, a
16 minimum of 25 cents and a maximum of 50 cents for each 100
17 words. Exceptions filed to claims presented to an assignee
18 of a debtor who has made a voluntary assignment for the
19 benefit of creditors shall be considered and treated, for
20 the purpose of taxing costs therein, as actions in which
21 the party or parties filing the exceptions shall be
22 considered as party or parties plaintiff, and the claimant
23 or claimants as party or parties defendant, and those
24 parties respectively shall pay to the clerk the same fees
25 as provided by this Section to be paid in other actions.
26(u) Expungement Petition.

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1 The clerk shall be entitled to receive a fee of a
2 minimum of $15 and a maximum of $60 for each expungement
3 petition filed and an additional fee of a minimum of $2 and
4 a maximum of $4 for each certified copy of an order to
5 expunge arrest records.
6(v) Probate.
7 The clerk is entitled to receive the fees specified in
8 this subsection (v), which shall be paid in advance, except
9 that, for good cause shown, the court may suspend, reduce,
10 or release the costs payable under this subsection:
11 (1) For administration of the estate of a decedent
12 (whether testate or intestate) or of a missing person, a
13 minimum of $50 and a maximum of $150, plus the fees
14 specified in subsection (v)(3), except:
15 (A) When the value of the real and personal
16 property does not exceed $15,000, the fee shall be a
17 minimum of $25 and a maximum of $40.
18 (B) When (i) proof of heirship alone is made, (ii)
19 a domestic or foreign will is admitted to probate
20 without administration (including proof of heirship),
21 or (iii) letters of office are issued for a particular
22 purpose without administration of the estate, the fee
23 shall be a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $40.
24 (C) For filing a petition to sell Real Estate, $50.
25 (2) For administration of the estate of a ward, a
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1 specified in subsection (v)(3), except:
2 (A) When the value of the real and personal
3 property does not exceed $15,000, the fee shall be a
4 minimum of $25 and a maximum of $40.
5 (B) When (i) letters of office are issued to a
6 guardian of the person or persons, but not of the
7 estate or (ii) letters of office are issued in the
8 estate of a ward without administration of the estate,
9 including filing or joining in the filing of a tax
10 return or releasing a mortgage or consenting to the
11 marriage of the ward, the fee shall be a minimum of $10
12 and a maximum of $20.
13 (C) For filing a Petition to sell Real Estate, $50.
14 (3) In addition to the fees payable under subsection
15 (v)(1) or (v)(2) of this Section, the following fees are
16 payable:
17 (A) For each account (other than one final account)
18 filed in the estate of a decedent, or ward, a minimum
19 of $10 and a maximum of $25.
20 (B) For filing a claim in an estate when the amount
21 claimed is $150 or more but less than $500, a minimum
22 of $10 and a maximum of $25; when the amount claimed is
23 $500 or more but less than $10,000, a minimum of $10
24 and a maximum of $40; when the amount claimed is
25 $10,000 or more, a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $60;
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1 the amount allowed the filing fee paid by the claimant.
2 (C) For filing in an estate a claim, petition, or
3 supplemental proceeding based upon an action seeking
4 equitable relief including the construction or contest
5 of a will, enforcement of a contract to make a will,
6 and proceedings involving testamentary trusts or the
7 appointment of testamentary trustees, a minimum of $40
8 and a maximum of $60.
9 (D) For filing in an estate (i) the appearance of
10 any person for the purpose of consent or (ii) the
11 appearance of an executor, administrator,
12 administrator to collect, guardian, guardian ad litem,
13 or special administrator, no fee.
14 (E) Except as provided in subsection (v)(3)(D),
15 for filing the appearance of any person or persons, a
16 minimum of $10 and a maximum of $30.
17 (F) For each jury demand, a minimum of $62.50 and a
18 maximum of $137.50.
19 (G) For disposition of the collection of a judgment
20 or settlement of an action or claim for wrongful death
21 of a decedent or of any cause of action of a ward, when
22 there is no other administration of the estate, a
23 minimum of $30 and a maximum of $50, less any amount
24 paid under subsection (v)(1)(B) or (v)(2)(B) except
25 that if the amount involved does not exceed $5,000, the
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1 (v)(1)(B) or (v)(2)(B), shall be a minimum of $10 and a
2 maximum of $20.
3 (H) For each certified copy of letters of office,
4 of court order or other certification, a minimum of $1
5 and a maximum of $2, plus a minimum of 50 cents and a
6 maximum of $1 per page in excess of 3 pages for the
7 document certified.
8 (I) For each exemplification, a minimum of $1 and a
9 maximum of $2, plus the fee for certification.
10 (4) The executor, administrator, guardian, petitioner,
11 or other interested person or his or her attorney shall pay
12 the cost of publication by the clerk directly to the
13 newspaper.
14 (5) The person on whose behalf a charge is incurred for
15 witness, court reporter, appraiser, or other miscellaneous
16 fee shall pay the same directly to the person entitled
17 thereto.
18 (6) The executor, administrator, guardian, petitioner,
19 or other interested person or his or her attorney shall pay
20 to the clerk all postage charges incurred by the clerk in
21 mailing petitions, orders, notices, or other documents
22 pursuant to the provisions of the Probate Act of 1975.
23(w) Criminal and Quasi-Criminal Costs and Fees.
24 (1) The clerk shall be entitled to costs in all
25 criminal and quasi-criminal cases from each person
26 convicted or sentenced to supervision therein as follows:

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1 (A) Felony complaints, a minimum of $40 and a
2 maximum of $100.
3 (B) Misdemeanor complaints, a minimum of $25 and a
4 maximum of $75.
5 (C) Business offense complaints, a minimum of $25
6 and a maximum of $75.
7 (D) Petty offense complaints, a minimum of $25 and
8 a maximum of $75.
9 (E) Minor traffic or ordinance violations, $10.
10 (F) When court appearance required, $15.
11 (G) Motions to vacate or amend final orders, a
12 minimum of $20 and a maximum of $40.
13 (H) Motions to vacate bond forfeiture orders, a
14 minimum of $20 and a maximum of $40.
15 (I) Motions to vacate ex parte judgments, whenever
16 filed, a minimum of $20 and a maximum of $40.
17 (J) Motions to vacate judgment on forfeitures,
18 whenever filed, a minimum of $20 and a maximum of $40.
19 (K) Motions to vacate "failure to appear" or
20 "failure to comply" notices sent to the Secretary of
21 State, a minimum of $20 and a maximum of $40.
22 (2) In counties having a population of not more than
23 500,000 inhabitants, when the violation complaint is
24 issued by a municipal police department, the clerk shall be
25 entitled to costs from each person convicted therein as
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1 (A) Minor traffic or ordinance violations, $10.
2 (B) When court appearance required, $15.
3 (3) In ordinance violation cases punishable by fine
4 only, the clerk of the circuit court shall be entitled to
5 receive, unless the fee is excused upon a finding by the
6 court that the defendant is indigent, in addition to other
7 fees or costs allowed or imposed by law, the sum of a
8 minimum of $62.50 and a maximum of $137.50 as a fee for the
9 services of a jury. The jury fee shall be paid by the
10 defendant at the time of filing his or her jury demand. If
11 the fee is not so paid by the defendant, no jury shall be
12 called, and the case shall be tried by the court without a
13 jury.
14(x) Transcripts of Judgment.
15 For the filing of a transcript of judgment, the clerk
16 shall be entitled to the same fee as if it were the
17 commencement of a new suit.
18(y) Change of Venue.
19 (1) For the filing of a change of case on a change of
20 venue, the clerk shall be entitled to the same fee as if it
21 were the commencement of a new suit.
22 (2) The fee for the preparation and certification of a
23 record on a change of venue to another jurisdiction, when
24 original documents are forwarded, a minimum of $10 and a
25 maximum of $40.
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1 For each tax objection complaint containing one or more
2 tax objections, regardless of the number of parcels
3 involved or the number of taxpayers joining on the
4 complaint, a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $50.
5(aa) Tax Deeds.
6 (1) Petition for tax deed, if only one parcel is
7 involved, a minimum of $45 and a maximum of $200.
8 (2) For each additional parcel, add a fee of a minimum
9 of $10 and a maximum of $60.
10(bb) Collections.
11 (1) For all collections made of others, except the
12 State and county and except in maintenance or child support
13 cases, a sum equal to a minimum of 2% and a maximum of 2.5%
14 of the amount collected and turned over.
15 (2) Interest earned on any funds held by the clerk
16 shall be turned over to the county general fund as an
17 earning of the office.
18 (3) For any check, draft, or other bank instrument
19 returned to the clerk for non-sufficient funds, account
20 closed, or payment stopped, $25.
21 (4) In child support and maintenance cases, the clerk,
22 if authorized by an ordinance of the county board, may
23 collect an annual fee of up to $36 from the person making
24 payment for maintaining child support records and the
25 processing of support orders to the State of Illinois KIDS
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1 Disbursement Unit for the official record of the Court.
2 This fee shall be in addition to and separate from amounts
3 ordered to be paid as maintenance or child support and
4 shall be deposited into a Separate Maintenance and Child
5 Support Collection Fund, of which the clerk shall be the
6 custodian, ex-officio, to be used by the clerk to maintain
7 child support orders and record all payments issued by the
8 State Disbursement Unit for the official record of the
9 Court. The clerk may recover from the person making the
10 maintenance or child support payment any additional cost
11 incurred in the collection of this annual fee.
12 The clerk shall also be entitled to a fee of $5 for
13 certifications made to the Secretary of State as provided
14 in Section 7-703 of the Family Financial Responsibility Law
15 and these fees shall also be deposited into the Separate
16 Maintenance and Child Support Collection Fund.
17(cc) Corrections of Numbers.
18 For correction of the case number, case title, or
19 attorney computer identification number, if required by
20 rule of court, on any document filed in the clerk's office,
21 to be charged against the party that filed the document, a
22 minimum of $10 and a maximum of $25.
23(dd) Exceptions.
24 (1) The fee requirements of this Section shall not
25 apply to police departments or other law enforcement
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1 an agency of the State or a unit of local government which
2 is vested by law or ordinance with the duty to maintain
3 public order and to enforce criminal laws or ordinances.
4 "Law enforcement agency" also means the Attorney General or
5 any state's attorney.
6 (2) No fee provided herein shall be charged to any unit
7 of local government or school district.
8 (3) The fee requirements of this Section shall not
9 apply to any action instituted under subsection (b) of
10 Section 11-31-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code by a private
11 owner or tenant of real property within 1200 feet of a
12 dangerous or unsafe building seeking an order compelling
13 the owner or owners of the building to take any of the
14 actions authorized under that subsection.
15 (4) The fee requirements of this Section shall not
16 apply to the filing of any commitment petition or petition
17 for an order authorizing the administration of
18 psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy under
19 the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.
20(ee) Adoptions.
21 (1) For an adoption...............................$65
22 (2) Upon good cause shown, the court may waive the
23 adoption filing fee in a special needs adoption. The term
24 "special needs adoption" shall have the meaning ascribed to
25 it by the Illinois Department of Children and Family
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1(ff) Adoption exemptions.
2 No fee other than that set forth in subsection (ee)
3 shall be charged to any person in connection with an
4 adoption proceeding nor may any fee be charged for
5 proceedings for the appointment of a confidential
6 intermediary under the Adoption Act.
7(Source: P.A. 95-172, eff. 8-14-07; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
8 Section 961. The Juvenile Court Act of 1987 is amended by
9changing Sections 1-3 and 6-9 as follows:
10 (705 ILCS 405/1-3) (from Ch. 37, par. 801-3)
11 Sec. 1-3. Definitions. Terms used in this Act, unless the
12context otherwise requires, have the following meanings
13ascribed to them:
14 (1) "Adjudicatory hearing" means a hearing to determine
15whether the allegations of a petition under Section 2-13, 3-15
16or 4-12 that a minor under 18 years of age is abused, neglected
17or dependent, or requires authoritative intervention, or
18addicted, respectively, are supported by a preponderance of the
19evidence or whether the allegations of a petition under Section
205-520 that a minor is delinquent are proved beyond a reasonable
21doubt.
22 (2) "Adult" means a person 21 years of age or older.
23 (3) "Agency" means a public or private child care facility
24legally authorized or licensed by this State for placement or

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1institutional care or for both placement and institutional
2care.
3 (4) "Association" means any organization, public or
4private, engaged in welfare functions which include services to
5or on behalf of children but does not include "agency" as
6herein defined.
7 (4.05) Whenever a "best interest" determination is
8required, the following factors shall be considered in the
9context of the child's age and developmental needs:
10 (a) the physical safety and welfare of the child,
11 including food, shelter, health, and clothing;
12 (b) the development of the child's identity;
13 (c) the child's background and ties, including
14 familial, cultural, and religious;
15 (d) the child's sense of attachments, including:
16 (i) where the child actually feels love,
17 attachment, and a sense of being valued (as opposed to
18 where adults believe the child should feel such love,
19 attachment, and a sense of being valued);
20 (ii) the child's sense of security;
21 (iii) the child's sense of familiarity;
22 (iv) continuity of affection for the child;
23 (v) the least disruptive placement alternative for
24 the child;
25 (e) the child's wishes and long-term goals;
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1 school, and friends;
2 (g) the child's need for permanence which includes the
3 child's need for stability and continuity of relationships
4 with parent figures and with siblings and other relatives;
5 (h) the uniqueness of every family and child;
6 (i) the risks attendant to entering and being in
7 substitute care; and
8 (j) the preferences of the persons available to care
9 for the child.
10 (4.1) "Chronic truant" shall have the definition ascribed
11to it in Section 26-2a of the School Code.
12 (5) "Court" means the circuit court in a session or
13division assigned to hear proceedings under this Act.
14 (6) "Dispositional hearing" means a hearing to determine
15whether a minor should be adjudged to be a ward of the court,
16and to determine what order of disposition should be made in
17respect to a minor adjudged to be a ward of the court.
18 (7) "Emancipated minor" means any minor 16 years of age or
19over who has been completely or partially emancipated under the
20Emancipation of Minors Act or under this Act.
21 (7.05) "Foster parent" includes a relative caregiver
22selected by the Department of Children and Family Services to
23provide care for the minor.
24 (8) "Guardianship of the person" of a minor means the duty
25and authority to act in the best interests of the minor,
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1make important decisions in matters having a permanent effect
2on the life and development of the minor and to be concerned
3with his or her general welfare. It includes but is not
4necessarily limited to:
5 (a) the authority to consent to marriage, to enlistment
6 in the armed forces of the United States, or to a major
7 medical, psychiatric, and surgical treatment; to represent
8 the minor in legal actions; and to make other decisions of
9 substantial legal significance concerning the minor;
10 (b) the authority and duty of reasonable visitation,
11 except to the extent that these have been limited in the
12 best interests of the minor by court order;
13 (c) the rights and responsibilities of legal custody
14 except where legal custody has been vested in another
15 person or agency; and
16 (d) the power to consent to the adoption of the minor,
17 but only if expressly conferred on the guardian in
18 accordance with Section 2-29, 3-30, or 4-27.
19 (9) "Legal custody" means the relationship created by an
20order of court in the best interests of the minor which imposes
21on the custodian the responsibility of physical possession of a
22minor and the duty to protect, train and discipline him and to
23provide him with food, shelter, education and ordinary medical
24care, except as these are limited by residual parental rights
25and responsibilities and the rights and responsibilities of the
26guardian of the person, if any.

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1 (9.1) "Mentally capable adult relative" means a person 21
2years of age or older who is not suffering from a mental
3illness that prevents him or her from providing the care
4necessary to safeguard the physical safety and welfare of a
5minor who is left in that person's care by the parent or
6parents or other person responsible for the minor's welfare.
7 (10) "Minor" means a person under the age of 21 years
8subject to this Act.
9 (11) "Parent" means a the father or mother of a child and
10includes any adoptive parent. It also includes a person man (i)
11whose parentage paternity is presumed or has been established
12under the law of this or another jurisdiction or (ii) who has
13registered with the Putative Father Registry in accordance with
14Section 12.1 of the Adoption Act and whose paternity has not
15been ruled out under the law of this or another jurisdiction.
16It does not include a parent whose rights in respect to the
17minor have been terminated in any manner provided by law. It
18does not include a person who has been or could be determined
19to be a parent under the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 or the
20Illinois Parentage Act of 2014, or similar parentage law in any
21other state, if that person has been convicted of or pled nolo
22contendere to a crime that resulted in the conception of the
23child under Section 11-1.20, 11-1.30, 11-1.40, 11-11, 12-13,
2412-14, 12-14.1, subsection (a) or (b) (but not subsection (c))
25of Section 11-1.50 or 12-15, or subsection (a), (b), (c), (e),
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1the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or
2similar statute in another jurisdiction unless upon motion of
3any party, other than the offender, to the juvenile court
4proceedings the court finds it is in the child's best interest
5to deem the offender a parent for purposes of the juvenile
6court proceedings.
7 (11.1) "Permanency goal" means a goal set by the court as
8defined in subdivision (2) of Section 2-28.
9 (11.2) "Permanency hearing" means a hearing to set the
10permanency goal and to review and determine (i) the
11appropriateness of the services contained in the plan and
12whether those services have been provided, (ii) whether
13reasonable efforts have been made by all the parties to the
14service plan to achieve the goal, and (iii) whether the plan
15and goal have been achieved.
16 (12) "Petition" means the petition provided for in Section
172-13, 3-15, 4-12 or 5-520, including any supplemental petitions
18thereunder in Section 3-15, 4-12 or 5-520.
19 (12.1) "Physically capable adult relative" means a person
2021 years of age or older who does not have a severe physical
21disability or medical condition, or is not suffering from
22alcoholism or drug addiction, that prevents him or her from
23providing the care necessary to safeguard the physical safety
24and welfare of a minor who is left in that person's care by the
25parent or parents or other person responsible for the minor's
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1 (12.2) "Post Permanency Sibling Contact Agreement" has the
2meaning ascribed to the term in Section 7.4 of the Children and
3Family Services Act.
4 (13) "Residual parental rights and responsibilities" means
5those rights and responsibilities remaining with the parent
6after the transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the
7person, including, but not necessarily limited to, the right to
8reasonable visitation (which may be limited by the court in the
9best interests of the minor as provided in subsection (8)(b) of
10this Section), the right to consent to adoption, the right to
11determine the minor's religious affiliation, and the
12responsibility for his support.
13 (14) "Shelter" means the temporary care of a minor in
14physically unrestricting facilities pending court disposition
15or execution of court order for placement.
16 (14.1) "Sibling Contact Support Plan" has the meaning
17ascribed to the term in Section 7.4 of the Children and Family
18Services Act.
19 (15) "Station adjustment" means the informal handling of an
20alleged offender by a juvenile police officer.
21 (16) "Ward of the court" means a minor who is so adjudged
22under Section 2-22, 3-23, 4-20 or 5-705, after a finding of the
23requisite jurisdictional facts, and thus is subject to the
24dispositional powers of the court under this Act.
25 (17) "Juvenile police officer" means a sworn police officer
26who has completed a Basic Recruit Training Course, has been

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1assigned to the position of juvenile police officer by his or
2her chief law enforcement officer and has completed the
3necessary juvenile officers training as prescribed by the
4Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, or in the
5case of a State police officer, juvenile officer training
6approved by the Director of the Department of State Police.
7 (18) "Secure child care facility" means any child care
8facility licensed by the Department of Children and Family
9Services to provide secure living arrangements for children
10under 18 years of age who are subject to placement in
11facilities under the Children and Family Services Act and who
12are not subject to placement in facilities for whom standards
13are established by the Department of Corrections under Section
143-15-2 of the Unified Code of Corrections. "Secure child care
15facility" also means a facility that is designed and operated
16to ensure that all entrances and exits from the facility, a
17building, or a distinct part of the building are under the
18exclusive control of the staff of the facility, whether or not
19the child has the freedom of movement within the perimeter of
20the facility, building, or distinct part of the building.
21(Source: P.A. 97-568, eff. 8-25-11; 97-1076, eff. 8-24-12;
2297-1150, eff. 1-25-13; 98-249, eff. 1-1-14.)
23 (705 ILCS 405/6-9) (from Ch. 37, par. 806-9)
24 Sec. 6-9. Enforcement of liability of parents and others.
25 (1) If parentage is at issue in any proceeding under this

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1Act, other than cases involving those exceptions to the
2definition of parent set out in item (11) in Section 1-3, then
3the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984 shall apply and the
4court shall enter orders consistent with that Act. If it
5appears at any hearing that a parent or any other person named
6in the petition, liable under the law for the support of the
7minor, is able to contribute to his or her support, the court
8shall enter an order requiring that parent or other person to
9pay the clerk of the court, or to the guardian or custodian
10appointed under Sections 2-27, 3-28, 4-25 or 5-740, a
11reasonable sum from time to time for the care, support and
12necessary special care or treatment, of the minor. If the court
13determines at any hearing that a parent or any other person
14named in the petition, liable under the law for the support of
15the minor, is able to contribute to help defray the costs
16associated with the minor's detention in a county or regional
17detention center, the court shall enter an order requiring that
18parent or other person to pay the clerk of the court a
19reasonable sum for the care and support of the minor. The court
20may require reasonable security for the payments. Upon failure
21to pay, the court may enforce obedience to the order by a
22proceeding as for contempt of court.
23 If it appears that the person liable for the support of the
24minor is able to contribute to legal fees for representation of
25the minor, the court shall enter an order requiring that person
26to pay a reasonable sum for the representation, to the attorney

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1providing the representation or to the clerk of the court for
2deposit in the appropriate account or fund. The sum may be paid
3as the court directs, and the payment thereof secured and
4enforced as provided in this Section for support.
5 If it appears at the detention or shelter care hearing of a
6minor before the court under Section 5-501 that a parent or any
7other person liable for support of the minor is able to
8contribute to his or her support, that parent or other person
9shall be required to pay a fee for room and board at a rate not
10to exceed $10 per day established, with the concurrence of the
11chief judge of the judicial circuit, by the county board of the
12county in which the minor is detained unless the court
13determines that it is in the best interest and welfare of the
14minor to waive the fee. The concurrence of the chief judge
15shall be in the form of an administrative order. Each week, on
16a day designated by the clerk of the circuit court, that parent
17or other person shall pay the clerk for the minor's room and
18board. All fees for room and board collected by the circuit
19court clerk shall be disbursed into the separate county fund
20under Section 6-7.
21 Upon application, the court shall waive liability for
22support or legal fees under this Section if the parent or other
23person establishes that he or she is indigent and unable to pay
24the incurred liability, and the court may reduce or waive
25liability if the parent or other person establishes
26circumstances showing that full payment of support or legal

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1fees would result in financial hardship to the person or his or
2her family.
3 (2) When a person so ordered to pay for the care and
4support of a minor is employed for wages, salary or commission,
5the court may order him to make the support payments for which
6he is liable under this Act out of his wages, salary or
7commission and to assign so much thereof as will pay the
8support. The court may also order him to make discovery to the
9court as to his place of employment and the amounts earned by
10him. Upon his failure to obey the orders of court he may be
11punished as for contempt of court.
12 (3) If the minor is a recipient of public aid under the
13Illinois Public Aid Code, the court shall order that payments
14made by a parent or through assignment of his wages, salary or
15commission be made directly to (a) the Department of Healthcare
16and Family Services if the minor is a recipient of aid under
17Article V of the Code, (b) the Department of Human Services if
18the minor is a recipient of aid under Article IV of the Code,
19or (c) the local governmental unit responsible for the support
20of the minor if he is a recipient under Articles VI or VII of
21the Code. The order shall permit the Department of Healthcare
22and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, or the
23local governmental unit, as the case may be, to direct that
24subsequent payments be made directly to the guardian or
25custodian of the minor, or to some other person or agency in
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1aid rolls; and upon such direction and removal of the minor
2from the public aid rolls, the Department of Healthcare and
3Family Services, Department of Human Services, or local
4governmental unit, as the case requires, shall give written
5notice of such action to the court. Payments received by the
6Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Department of
7Human Services, or local governmental unit are to be covered,
8respectively, into the General Revenue Fund of the State
9Treasury or General Assistance Fund of the governmental unit,
10as provided in Section 10-19 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
11(Source: P.A. 97-568, eff. 8-25-11.)
12 Section 962. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
13amended by changing Section 112A-14 as follows:
14 (725 ILCS 5/112A-14) (from Ch. 38, par. 112A-14)
15 Sec. 112A-14. Order of protection; remedies.
16 (a) Issuance of order. If the court finds that petitioner
17has been abused by a family or household member, as defined in
18this Article, an order of protection prohibiting such abuse
19shall issue; provided that petitioner must also satisfy the
20requirements of one of the following Sections, as appropriate:
21Section 112A-17 on emergency orders, Section 112A-18 on interim
22orders, or Section 112A-19 on plenary orders. Petitioner shall
23not be denied an order of protection because petitioner or
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1not to issue an order of protection, shall not require physical
2manifestations of abuse on the person of the victim.
3Modification and extension of prior orders of protection shall
4be in accordance with this Article.
5 (b) Remedies and standards. The remedies to be included in
6an order of protection shall be determined in accordance with
7this Section and one of the following Sections, as appropriate:
8Section 112A-17 on emergency orders, Section 112A-18 on interim
9orders, and Section 112A-19 on plenary orders. The remedies
10listed in this subsection shall be in addition to other civil
11or criminal remedies available to petitioner.
12 (1) Prohibition of abuse. Prohibit respondent's
13 harassment, interference with personal liberty,
14 intimidation of a dependent, physical abuse or willful
15 deprivation, as defined in this Article, if such abuse has
16 occurred or otherwise appears likely to occur if not
17 prohibited.
18 (2) Grant of exclusive possession of residence.
19 Prohibit respondent from entering or remaining in any
20 residence, household, or premises of the petitioner,
21 including one owned or leased by respondent, if petitioner
22 has a right to occupancy thereof. The grant of exclusive
23 possession of the residence, household, or premises shall
24 not affect title to real property, nor shall the court be
25 limited by the standard set forth in Section 701 of the
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1 (A) Right to occupancy. A party has a right to
2 occupancy of a residence or household if it is solely
3 or jointly owned or leased by that party, that party's
4 spouse, a person with a legal duty to support that
5 party or a minor child in that party's care, or by any
6 person or entity other than the opposing party that
7 authorizes that party's occupancy (e.g., a domestic
8 violence shelter). Standards set forth in subparagraph
9 (B) shall not preclude equitable relief.
10 (B) Presumption of hardships. If petitioner and
11 respondent each has the right to occupancy of a
12 residence or household, the court shall balance (i) the
13 hardships to respondent and any minor child or
14 dependent adult in respondent's care resulting from
15 entry of this remedy with (ii) the hardships to
16 petitioner and any minor child or dependent adult in
17 petitioner's care resulting from continued exposure to
18 the risk of abuse (should petitioner remain at the
19 residence or household) or from loss of possession of
20 the residence or household (should petitioner leave to
21 avoid the risk of abuse). When determining the balance
22 of hardships, the court shall also take into account
23 the accessibility of the residence or household.
24 Hardships need not be balanced if respondent does not
25 have a right to occupancy.
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1 possession by petitioner unless the presumption is
2 rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence, showing
3 that the hardships to respondent substantially
4 outweigh the hardships to petitioner and any minor
5 child or dependent adult in petitioner's care. The
6 court, on the request of petitioner or on its own
7 motion, may order respondent to provide suitable,
8 accessible, alternate housing for petitioner instead
9 of excluding respondent from a mutual residence or
10 household.
11 (3) Stay away order and additional prohibitions. Order
12 respondent to stay away from petitioner or any other person
13 protected by the order of protection, or prohibit
14 respondent from entering or remaining present at
15 petitioner's school, place of employment, or other
16 specified places at times when petitioner is present, or
17 both, if reasonable, given the balance of hardships.
18 Hardships need not be balanced for the court to enter a
19 stay away order or prohibit entry if respondent has no
20 right to enter the premises.
21 If an order of protection grants petitioner exclusive
22 possession of the residence, or prohibits respondent from
23 entering the residence, or orders respondent to stay away
24 from petitioner or other protected persons, then the court
25 may allow respondent access to the residence to remove
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1 by respondent, medications, and other items as the court
2 directs. The right to access shall be exercised on only one
3 occasion as the court directs and in the presence of an
4 agreed-upon adult third party or law enforcement officer.
5 (4) Counseling. Require or recommend the respondent to
6 undergo counseling for a specified duration with a social
7 worker, psychologist, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist,
8 family service agency, alcohol or substance abuse program,
9 mental health center guidance counselor, agency providing
10 services to elders, program designed for domestic violence
11 abusers or any other guidance service the court deems
12 appropriate. The court may order the respondent in any
13 intimate partner relationship to report to an Illinois
14 Department of Human Services protocol approved partner
15 abuse intervention program for an assessment and to follow
16 all recommended treatment.
17 (5) Physical care and possession of the minor child. In
18 order to protect the minor child from abuse, neglect, or
19 unwarranted separation from the person who has been the
20 minor child's primary caretaker, or to otherwise protect
21 the well-being of the minor child, the court may do either
22 or both of the following: (i) grant petitioner physical
23 care or possession of the minor child, or both, or (ii)
24 order respondent to return a minor child to, or not remove
25 a minor child from, the physical care of a parent or person
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1 If a court finds, after a hearing, that respondent has
2 committed abuse (as defined in Section 112A-3) of a minor
3 child, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that
4 awarding physical care to respondent would not be in the
5 minor child's best interest.
6 (6) Temporary legal custody. Award temporary legal
7 custody to petitioner in accordance with this Section, the
8 Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the
9 Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984, and this State's
10 Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.
11 If a court finds, after a hearing, that respondent has
12 committed abuse (as defined in Section 112A-3) of a minor
13 child, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that
14 awarding temporary legal custody to respondent would not be
15 in the child's best interest.
16 (7) Visitation. Determine the visitation rights, if
17 any, of respondent in any case in which the court awards
18 physical care or temporary legal custody of a minor child
19 to petitioner. The court shall restrict or deny
20 respondent's visitation with a minor child if the court
21 finds that respondent has done or is likely to do any of
22 the following: (i) abuse or endanger the minor child during
23 visitation; (ii) use the visitation as an opportunity to
24 abuse or harass petitioner or petitioner's family or
25 household members; (iii) improperly conceal or detain the
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1 in the best interests of the minor child. The court shall
2 not be limited by the standards set forth in Section 607.1
3 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
4 If the court grants visitation, the order shall specify
5 dates and times for the visitation to take place or other
6 specific parameters or conditions that are appropriate. No
7 order for visitation shall refer merely to the term
8 "reasonable visitation".
9 Petitioner may deny respondent access to the minor
10 child if, when respondent arrives for visitation,
11 respondent is under the influence of drugs or alcohol and
12 constitutes a threat to the safety and well-being of
13 petitioner or petitioner's minor children or is behaving in
14 a violent or abusive manner.
15 If necessary to protect any member of petitioner's
16 family or household from future abuse, respondent shall be
17 prohibited from coming to petitioner's residence to meet
18 the minor child for visitation, and the parties shall
19 submit to the court their recommendations for reasonable
20 alternative arrangements for visitation. A person may be
21 approved to supervise visitation only after filing an
22 affidavit accepting that responsibility and acknowledging
23 accountability to the court.
24 (8) Removal or concealment of minor child. Prohibit
25 respondent from removing a minor child from the State or
26 concealing the child within the State.

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1 (9) Order to appear. Order the respondent to appear in
2 court, alone or with a minor child, to prevent abuse,
3 neglect, removal or concealment of the child, to return the
4 child to the custody or care of the petitioner or to permit
5 any court-ordered interview or examination of the child or
6 the respondent.
7 (10) Possession of personal property. Grant petitioner
8 exclusive possession of personal property and, if
9 respondent has possession or control, direct respondent to
10 promptly make it available to petitioner, if:
11 (i) petitioner, but not respondent, owns the
12 property; or
13 (ii) the parties own the property jointly; sharing
14 it would risk abuse of petitioner by respondent or is
15 impracticable; and the balance of hardships favors
16 temporary possession by petitioner.
17 If petitioner's sole claim to ownership of the property
18 is that it is marital property, the court may award
19 petitioner temporary possession thereof under the
20 standards of subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph only if a
21 proper proceeding has been filed under the Illinois
22 Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, as now or
23 hereafter amended.
24 No order under this provision shall affect title to
25 property.
26 (11) Protection of property. Forbid the respondent

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1 from taking, transferring, encumbering, concealing,
2 damaging or otherwise disposing of any real or personal
3 property, except as explicitly authorized by the court, if:
4 (i) petitioner, but not respondent, owns the
5 property; or
6 (ii) the parties own the property jointly, and the
7 balance of hardships favors granting this remedy.
8 If petitioner's sole claim to ownership of the property
9 is that it is marital property, the court may grant
10 petitioner relief under subparagraph (ii) of this
11 paragraph only if a proper proceeding has been filed under
12 the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, as
13 now or hereafter amended.
14 The court may further prohibit respondent from
15 improperly using the financial or other resources of an
16 aged member of the family or household for the profit or
17 advantage of respondent or of any other person.
18 (11.5) Protection of animals. Grant the petitioner the
19 exclusive care, custody, or control of any animal owned,
20 possessed, leased, kept, or held by either the petitioner
21 or the respondent or a minor child residing in the
22 residence or household of either the petitioner or the
23 respondent and order the respondent to stay away from the
24 animal and forbid the respondent from taking,
25 transferring, encumbering, concealing, harming, or
26 otherwise disposing of the animal.

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1 (12) Order for payment of support. Order respondent to
2 pay temporary support for the petitioner or any child in
3 the petitioner's care or custody, when the respondent has a
4 legal obligation to support that person, in accordance with
5 the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act,
6 which shall govern, among other matters, the amount of
7 support, payment through the clerk and withholding of
8 income to secure payment. An order for child support may be
9 granted to a petitioner with lawful physical care or
10 custody of a child, or an order or agreement for physical
11 care or custody, prior to entry of an order for legal
12 custody. Such a support order shall expire upon entry of a
13 valid order granting legal custody to another, unless
14 otherwise provided in the custody order.
15 (13) Order for payment of losses. Order respondent to
16 pay petitioner for losses suffered as a direct result of
17 the abuse. Such losses shall include, but not be limited
18 to, medical expenses, lost earnings or other support,
19 repair or replacement of property damaged or taken,
20 reasonable attorney's fees, court costs and moving or other
21 travel expenses, including additional reasonable expenses
22 for temporary shelter and restaurant meals.
23 (i) Losses affecting family needs. If a party is
24 entitled to seek maintenance, child support or
25 property distribution from the other party under the
26 Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, as

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1 now or hereafter amended, the court may order
2 respondent to reimburse petitioner's actual losses, to
3 the extent that such reimbursement would be
4 "appropriate temporary relief", as authorized by
5 subsection (a)(3) of Section 501 of that Act.
6 (ii) Recovery of expenses. In the case of an
7 improper concealment or removal of a minor child, the
8 court may order respondent to pay the reasonable
9 expenses incurred or to be incurred in the search for
10 and recovery of the minor child, including but not
11 limited to legal fees, court costs, private
12 investigator fees, and travel costs.
13 (14) Prohibition of entry. Prohibit the respondent
14 from entering or remaining in the residence or household
15 while the respondent is under the influence of alcohol or
16 drugs and constitutes a threat to the safety and well-being
17 of the petitioner or the petitioner's children.
18 (14.5) Prohibition of firearm possession.
19 (A) A person who is subject to an existing order of
20 protection, interim order of protection, emergency
21 order of protection, or plenary order of protection,
22 issued under this Code may not lawfully possess weapons
23 under Section 8.2 of the Firearm Owners Identification
24 Card Act.
25 (B) Any firearms in the possession of the
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1 this paragraph (14.5), shall be ordered by the court to
2 be turned over to a person with a valid Firearm Owner's
3 Identification Card for safekeeping. The court shall
4 issue an order that the respondent's Firearm Owner's
5 Identification Card be turned over to the local law
6 enforcement agency, which in turn shall immediately
7 mail the card to the Department of State Police Firearm
8 Owner's Identification Card Office for safekeeping.
9 The period of safekeeping shall be for the duration of
10 the order of protection. The firearm or firearms and
11 Firearm Owner's Identification Card, if unexpired,
12 shall at the respondent's request be returned to the
13 respondent at expiration of the order of protection.
14 (C) If the respondent is a peace officer as defined
15 in Section 2-13 of the Criminal Code of 2012, the court
16 shall order that any firearms used by the respondent in
17 the performance of his or her duties as a peace officer
18 be surrendered to the chief law enforcement executive
19 of the agency in which the respondent is employed, who
20 shall retain the firearms for safekeeping for the
21 duration of the order of protection.
22 (D) Upon expiration of the period of safekeeping,
23 if the firearms or Firearm Owner's Identification Card
24 cannot be returned to respondent because respondent
25 cannot be located, fails to respond to requests to
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1 possess a firearm, upon petition from the local law
2 enforcement agency, the court may order the local law
3 enforcement agency to destroy the firearms, use the
4 firearms for training purposes, or for any other
5 application as deemed appropriate by the local law
6 enforcement agency; or that the firearms be turned over
7 to a third party who is lawfully eligible to possess
8 firearms, and who does not reside with respondent.
9 (15) Prohibition of access to records. If an order of
10 protection prohibits respondent from having contact with
11 the minor child, or if petitioner's address is omitted
12 under subsection (b) of Section 112A-5, or if necessary to
13 prevent abuse or wrongful removal or concealment of a minor
14 child, the order shall deny respondent access to, and
15 prohibit respondent from inspecting, obtaining, or
16 attempting to inspect or obtain, school or any other
17 records of the minor child who is in the care of
18 petitioner.
19 (16) Order for payment of shelter services. Order
20 respondent to reimburse a shelter providing temporary
21 housing and counseling services to the petitioner for the
22 cost of the services, as certified by the shelter and
23 deemed reasonable by the court.
24 (17) Order for injunctive relief. Enter injunctive
25 relief necessary or appropriate to prevent further abuse of
26 a family or household member or to effectuate one of the

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1 granted remedies, if supported by the balance of hardships.
2 If the harm to be prevented by the injunction is abuse or
3 any other harm that one of the remedies listed in
4 paragraphs (1) through (16) of this subsection is designed
5 to prevent, no further evidence is necessary to establish
6 that the harm is an irreparable injury.
7 (c) Relevant factors; findings.
8 (1) In determining whether to grant a specific remedy,
9 other than payment of support, the court shall consider
10 relevant factors, including but not limited to the
11 following:
12 (i) the nature, frequency, severity, pattern and
13 consequences of the respondent's past abuse of the
14 petitioner or any family or household member,
15 including the concealment of his or her location in
16 order to evade service of process or notice, and the
17 likelihood of danger of future abuse to petitioner or
18 any member of petitioner's or respondent's family or
19 household; and
20 (ii) the danger that any minor child will be abused
21 or neglected or improperly removed from the
22 jurisdiction, improperly concealed within the State or
23 improperly separated from the child's primary
24 caretaker.
25 (2) In comparing relative hardships resulting to the
26 parties from loss of possession of the family home, the

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1 court shall consider relevant factors, including but not
2 limited to the following:
3 (i) availability, accessibility, cost, safety,
4 adequacy, location and other characteristics of
5 alternate housing for each party and any minor child or
6 dependent adult in the party's care;
7 (ii) the effect on the party's employment; and
8 (iii) the effect on the relationship of the party,
9 and any minor child or dependent adult in the party's
10 care, to family, school, church and community.
11 (3) Subject to the exceptions set forth in paragraph
12 (4) of this subsection, the court shall make its findings
13 in an official record or in writing, and shall at a minimum
14 set forth the following:
15 (i) That the court has considered the applicable
16 relevant factors described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of
17 this subsection.
18 (ii) Whether the conduct or actions of respondent,
19 unless prohibited, will likely cause irreparable harm
20 or continued abuse.
21 (iii) Whether it is necessary to grant the
22 requested relief in order to protect petitioner or
23 other alleged abused persons.
24 (4) For purposes of issuing an ex parte emergency order
25 of protection, the court, as an alternative to or as a
26 supplement to making the findings described in paragraphs

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1 (c)(3)(i) through (c)(3)(iii) of this subsection, may use
2 the following procedure:
3 When a verified petition for an emergency order of
4 protection in accordance with the requirements of Sections
5 112A-5 and 112A-17 is presented to the court, the court
6 shall examine petitioner on oath or affirmation. An
7 emergency order of protection shall be issued by the court
8 if it appears from the contents of the petition and the
9 examination of petitioner that the averments are
10 sufficient to indicate abuse by respondent and to support
11 the granting of relief under the issuance of the emergency
12 order of protection.
13 (5) Never married parties. No rights or
14 responsibilities for a minor child born outside of marriage
15 attach to a putative father until a father and child
16 relationship has been established under the Illinois
17 Parentage Act of 1984 or under the Illinois Parentage Act
18 of 2014 on and after the effective date of that Act. Absent
19 such an adjudication, no putative father shall be granted
20 temporary custody of the minor child, visitation with the
21 minor child, or physical care and possession of the minor
22 child, nor shall an order of payment for support of the
23 minor child be entered.
24 (d) Balance of hardships; findings. If the court finds that
25the balance of hardships does not support the granting of a
26remedy governed by paragraph (2), (3), (10), (11), or (16) of

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1subsection (b) of this Section, which may require such
2balancing, the court's findings shall so indicate and shall
3include a finding as to whether granting the remedy will result
4in hardship to respondent that would substantially outweigh the
5hardship to petitioner from denial of the remedy. The findings
6shall be an official record or in writing.
7 (e) Denial of remedies. Denial of any remedy shall not be
8based, in whole or in part, on evidence that:
9 (1) Respondent has cause for any use of force, unless
10 that cause satisfies the standards for justifiable use of
11 force provided by Article 7 of the Criminal Code of 2012;
12 (2) Respondent was voluntarily intoxicated;
13 (3) Petitioner acted in self-defense or defense of
14 another, provided that, if petitioner utilized force, such
15 force was justifiable under Article 7 of the Criminal Code
16 of 2012;
17 (4) Petitioner did not act in self-defense or defense
18 of another;
19 (5) Petitioner left the residence or household to avoid
20 further abuse by respondent;
21 (6) Petitioner did not leave the residence or household
22 to avoid further abuse by respondent;
23 (7) Conduct by any family or household member excused
24 the abuse by respondent, unless that same conduct would
25 have excused such abuse if the parties had not been family
26 or household members.

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1(Source: P.A. 97-158, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1131, eff. 1-1-13;
297-1150, eff. 1-25-13; 98-63, eff. 7-9-13.)
3 Section 963. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
4changing Section 3-5-4 as follows:
5 (730 ILCS 5/3-5-4)
6 Sec. 3-5-4. Exchange of information for child support
7enforcement.
8 (a) The Department shall exchange with the Department of
9Healthcare and Family Services information that may be
10necessary for the enforcement of child support orders entered
11pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage
12and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
13Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Revised
14Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the Uniform
15Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of
161984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
17 (b) Notwithstanding any provisions in this Code to the
18contrary, the Department shall not be liable to any person for
19any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare
20and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public
21Aid) under subsection (a) or for any other action taken in good
22faith to comply with the requirements of subsection (a).
23(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

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1 Section 964. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
2changing Sections 2-209, 2-1401, 12-112, and 12-819 as follows:
3 (735 ILCS 5/2-209) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-209)
4 Sec. 2-209. Act submitting to jurisdiction - Process.
5 (a) Any person, whether or not a citizen or resident of
6this State, who in person or through an agent does any of the
7acts hereinafter enumerated, thereby submits such person, and,
8if an individual, his or her personal representative, to the
9jurisdiction of the courts of this State as to any cause of
10action arising from the doing of any of such acts:
11 (1) The transaction of any business within this State;
12 (2) The commission of a tortious act within this State;
13 (3) The ownership, use, or possession of any real
14 estate situated in this State;
15 (4) Contracting to insure any person, property or risk
16 located within this State at the time of contracting;
17 (5) With respect to actions of dissolution of marriage,
18 declaration of invalidity of marriage and legal
19 separation, the maintenance in this State of a matrimonial
20 domicile at the time this cause of action arose or the
21 commission in this State of any act giving rise to the
22 cause of action;
23 (6) With respect to actions brought under the Illinois
24 Parentage Act of 1984, as now or hereafter amended, or
25 under the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 on and after the

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1 effective date of that Act, the performance of an act of
2 sexual intercourse within this State during the possible
3 period of conception;
4 (7) The making or performance of any contract or
5 promise substantially connected with this State;
6 (8) The performance of sexual intercourse within this
7 State which is claimed to have resulted in the conception
8 of a child who resides in this State;
9 (9) The failure to support a child, spouse or former
10 spouse who has continued to reside in this State since the
11 person either formerly resided with them in this State or
12 directed them to reside in this State;
13 (10) The acquisition of ownership, possession or
14 control of any asset or thing of value present within this
15 State when ownership, possession or control was acquired;
16 (11) The breach of any fiduciary duty within this
17 State;
18 (12) The performance of duties as a director or officer
19 of a corporation organized under the laws of this State or
20 having its principal place of business within this State;
21 (13) The ownership of an interest in any trust
22 administered within this State; or
23 (14) The exercise of powers granted under the authority
24 of this State as a fiduciary.
25 (b) A court may exercise jurisdiction in any action arising
26within or without this State against any person who:

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1 (1) Is a natural person present within this State when
2 served;
3 (2) Is a natural person domiciled or resident within
4 this State when the cause of action arose, the action was
5 commenced, or process was served;
6 (3) Is a corporation organized under the laws of this
7 State; or
8 (4) Is a natural person or corporation doing business
9 within this State.
10 (b-5) Foreign defamation judgment. The courts of this State
11shall have personal jurisdiction over any person who obtains a
12judgment in a defamation proceeding outside the United States
13against any person who is a resident of Illinois or, if not a
14natural person, has its principal place of business in
15Illinois, for the purposes of rendering declaratory relief with
16respect to that resident's liability for the judgment, or for
17the purpose of determining whether said judgment should be
18deemed non-recognizable pursuant to this Code, to the fullest
19extent permitted by the United States Constitution, provided:
20 (1) the publication at issue was published in Illinois,
21 and
22 (2) that resident (i) has assets in Illinois which
23 might be used to satisfy the foreign defamation judgment,
24 or (ii) may have to take actions in Illinois to comply with
25 the foreign defamation judgment.
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1persons who obtained judgments in defamation proceedings
2outside the United States prior to, on, or after the effective
3date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.
4 (c) A court may also exercise jurisdiction on any other
5basis now or hereafter permitted by the Illinois Constitution
6and the Constitution of the United States.
7 (d) Service of process upon any person who is subject to
8the jurisdiction of the courts of this State, as provided in
9this Section, may be made by personally serving the summons
10upon the defendant outside this State, as provided in this Act,
11with the same force and effect as though summons had been
12personally served within this State.
13 (e) Service of process upon any person who resides or whose
14business address is outside the United States and who is
15subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State, as
16provided in this Section, in any action based upon product
17liability may be made by serving a copy of the summons with a
18copy of the complaint attached upon the Secretary of State. The
19summons shall be accompanied by a $5 fee payable to the
20Secretary of State. The plaintiff shall forthwith mail a copy
21of the summons, upon which the date of service upon the
22Secretary is clearly shown, together with a copy of the
23complaint to the defendant at his or her last known place of
24residence or business address. Plaintiff shall file with the
25circuit clerk an affidavit of the plaintiff or his or her
26attorney stating the last known place of residence or the last

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1known business address of the defendant and a certificate of
2mailing a copy of the summons and complaint to the defendant at
3such address as required by this subsection (e). The
4certificate of mailing shall be prima facie evidence that the
5plaintiff or his or her attorney mailed a copy of the summons
6and complaint to the defendant as required. Service of the
7summons shall be deemed to have been made upon the defendant on
8the date it is served upon the Secretary and shall have the
9same force and effect as though summons had been personally
10served upon the defendant within this State.
11 (f) Only causes of action arising from acts enumerated
12herein may be asserted against a defendant in an action in
13which jurisdiction over him or her is based upon subsection
14(a).
15 (g) Nothing herein contained limits or affects the right to
16serve any process in any other manner now or hereafter provided
17by law.
18(Source: P.A. 95-865, eff. 8-19-08.)
19 (735 ILCS 5/2-1401) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1401)
20 Sec. 2-1401. Relief from judgments.
21 (a) Relief from final orders and judgments, after 30 days
22from the entry thereof, may be had upon petition as provided in
23this Section. Writs of error coram nobis and coram vobis, bills
24of review and bills in the nature of bills of review are
25abolished. All relief heretofore obtainable and the grounds for

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1such relief heretofore available, whether by any of the
2foregoing remedies or otherwise, shall be available in every
3case, by proceedings hereunder, regardless of the nature of the
4order or judgment from which relief is sought or of the
5proceedings in which it was entered. Except as provided in
6Section 6 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984, there
7shall be no distinction between actions and other proceedings,
8statutory or otherwise, as to availability of relief, grounds
9for relief or the relief obtainable.
10 (b) The petition must be filed in the same proceeding in
11which the order or judgment was entered but is not a
12continuation thereof. The petition must be supported by
13affidavit or other appropriate showing as to matters not of
14record. All parties to the petition shall be notified as
15provided by rule.
16 (c) Except as provided in Section 20b of the Adoption Act
17and Section 2-32 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or in a
18petition based upon Section 116-3 of the Code of Criminal
19Procedure of 1963, the petition must be filed not later than 2
20years after the entry of the order or judgment. Time during
21which the person seeking relief is under legal disability or
22duress or the ground for relief is fraudulently concealed shall
23be excluded in computing the period of 2 years.
24 (d) The filing of a petition under this Section does not
25affect the order or judgment, or suspend its operation.
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1the record proper, the vacation or modification of an order or
2judgment pursuant to the provisions of this Section does not
3affect the right, title or interest in or to any real or
4personal property of any person, not a party to the original
5action, acquired for value after the entry of the order or
6judgment but before the filing of the petition, nor affect any
7right of any person not a party to the original action under
8any certificate of sale issued before the filing of the
9petition, pursuant to a sale based on the order or judgment.
10 (f) Nothing contained in this Section affects any existing
11right to relief from a void order or judgment, or to employ any
12existing method to procure that relief.
13(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
14 (735 ILCS 5/12-112) (from Ch. 110, par. 12-112)
15 Sec. 12-112. What liable to enforcement. All the lands,
16tenements, real estate, goods and chattels (except such as is
17by law declared to be exempt) of every person against whom any
18judgment has been or shall be hereafter entered in any court,
19for any debt, damages, costs, or other sum of money, shall be
20liable to be sold upon such judgment. Any real property, any
21beneficial interest in a land trust, or any interest in real
22property held in a revocable inter vivos trust or revocable
23inter vivos trusts created for estate planning purposes, held
24in tenancy by the entirety shall not be liable to be sold upon
25judgment entered on or after October 1, 1990 against only one

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1of the tenants, except if the property was transferred into
2tenancy by the entirety with the sole intent to avoid the
3payment of debts existing at the time of the transfer beyond
4the transferor's ability to pay those debts as they become due.
5However, any income from such property shall be subject to
6garnishment as provided in Part 7 of this Article XII, whether
7judgment has been entered against one or both of the tenants.
8 If the court authorizes the piercing of the ownership veil
9pursuant to Section 505 of the Illinois Marriage and
10Dissolution of Marriage Act or Section 805 15 of the Illinois
11Parentage Act of 2014 1984, any assets determined to be those
12of the non-custodial parent, although not held in name of the
13non-custodial parent, shall be subject to attachment or other
14provisional remedy in accordance with the procedure prescribed
15by this Code. The court may not authorize attachment of
16property or any other provisional remedy under this paragraph
17unless it has obtained jurisdiction over the entity holding
18title to the property by proper service on that entity. With
19respect to assets which are real property, no order entered as
20described in this paragraph shall affect the rights of bona
21fide purchasers, mortgagees, judgment creditors, or other lien
22holders who acquire their interests in the property prior to
23the time a notice of lis pendens pursuant to this Code or a
24copy of the order is placed of record in the office of the
25recorder of deeds for the county in which the real property is
26located.

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1 This amendatory Act of 1995 (P.A. 89-438) is declarative of
2existing law.
3 This amendatory Act of 1997 (P.A. 90-514) is intended as a
4clarification of existing law and not as a new enactment.
5(Source: P.A. 96-1145, eff. 1-1-11.)
6 (735 ILCS 5/12-819) (from Ch. 110, par. 12-819)
7 Sec. 12-819. Limitations on part 8 of Article XII. The
8provisions of this Part 8 of Article XII of this Act do not
9apply to orders for withholding of income entered by the court
10under provisions of The Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois
11Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
12Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the
13Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the
14Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, and the Illinois Parentage Act
15of 2014 and the Paternity Act for support of a child or
16maintenance of a spouse.
17(Source: P.A. 91-613, eff. 10-1-99.)
18 Section 965. The Illinois Wage Assignment Act is amended by
19changing Section 11 as follows:
20 (740 ILCS 170/11) (from Ch. 48, par. 39.12)
21 Sec. 11. The provisions of this Act do not apply to orders
22for withholding of income entered by the court under provisions
23of The Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage and

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1Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
2Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Revised
3Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the Illinois
4Parentage Act of 1984, and the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014
5and the Paternity Act for support of a child or maintenance of
6a spouse.
7(Source: P.A. 91-613, eff. 10-1-99.)
8 Section 966. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
9Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 713 as follows:
10 (750 ILCS 5/713) (from Ch. 40, par. 713)
11 Sec. 713. Attachment of the Body. As used in this Section,
12"obligor" has the same meaning ascribed to such term in the
13Income Withholding for Support Act.
14 (a) In any proceeding to enforce an order for support,
15where the obligor has failed to appear in court pursuant to
16order of court and after due notice thereof, the court may
17enter an order for the attachment of the body of the obligor.
18Notices under this Section shall be served upon the obligor by
19any means authorized under subsection (a-5) of Section 505. The
20attachment order shall fix an amount of escrow which is equal
21to a minimum of 20% of the total child support arrearage
22alleged by the obligee in sworn testimony to be due and owing.
23The attachment order shall direct the Sheriff of any county in
24Illinois to take the obligor into custody and shall set the

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1number of days following release from custody for a hearing to
2be held at which the obligor must appear, if he is released
3under subsection (b) of this Section.
4 (b) If the obligor is taken into custody, the Sheriff shall
5take the obligor before the court which entered the attachment
6order. However, the Sheriff may release the person after he or
7she has deposited the amount of escrow ordered by the court
8pursuant to local procedures for the posting of bond. The
9Sheriff shall advise the obligor of the hearing date at which
10the obligor is required to appear.
11 (c) Any escrow deposited pursuant to this Section shall be
12transmitted to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county in
13which the order for attachment of the body of the obligor was
14entered. Any Clerk who receives money deposited into escrow
15pursuant to this Section shall notify the obligee, public
16office or legal counsel whose name appears on the attachment
17order of the court date at which the obligor is required to
18appear and the amount deposited into escrow. The Clerk shall
19disburse such money to the obligee only under an order from the
20court that entered the attachment order pursuant to this
21Section.
22 (d) Whenever an obligor is taken before the court by the
23Sheriff, or appears in court after the court has ordered the
24attachment of his body, the court shall:
25 (1) hold a hearing on the complaint or petition that
26 gave rise to the attachment order. For purposes of

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1 determining arrearages that are due and owing by the
2 obligor, the court shall accept the previous sworn
3 testimony of the obligee as true and the appearance of the
4 obligee shall not be required. The court shall require
5 sworn testimony of the obligor as to the last 4 digits of
6 his or her Social Security number, income, employment, bank
7 accounts, property and any other assets. If there is a
8 dispute as to the total amount of arrearages, the court
9 shall proceed as in any other case as to the undisputed
10 amounts; and
11 (2) order the Clerk of the Circuit Court to disburse to
12 the obligee or public office money held in escrow pursuant
13 to this Section if the court finds that the amount of
14 arrearages exceeds the amount of the escrow. Amounts
15 received by the obligee or public office shall be deducted
16 from the amount of the arrearages.
17 (e) If the obligor fails to appear in court after being
18notified of the court date by the Sheriff upon release from
19custody, the court shall order any monies deposited into escrow
20to be immediately released to the obligee or public office and
21shall proceed under subsection (a) of this Section by entering
22another order for the attachment of the body of the obligor.
23 (f) This Section shall apply to any order for support
24issued under the "Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
25Act", approved September 22, 1977, as amended; the Illinois
26Parentage Act of 2014; the "Illinois Parentage Act of 1984",

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1effective July 1, 1985, as amended; the "Revised Uniform
2Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act", approved August 28,
31969, as amended; "The Illinois Public Aid Code", approved
4April 11, 1967, as amended; the Non-Support Punishment Act; and
5the "Non-support of Spouse and Children Act", approved June 8,
61953, as amended.
7 (g) Any escrow established pursuant to this Section for the
8purpose of providing support shall not be subject to fees
9collected by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for any other
10escrow.
11(Source: P.A. 91-113, eff. 7-15-99; 91-613, eff. 10-1-99;
1292-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
13 Section 967. The Non-Support Punishment Act is amended by
14changing Section 50 as follows:
15 (750 ILCS 16/50)
16 Sec. 50. Community service; work alternative program.
17 (a) In addition to any other penalties imposed against an
18offender under this Act, the court may order the offender to
19perform community service for not less than 30 and not more
20than 120 hours per month, if community service is available in
21the jurisdiction and is funded and approved by the county board
22of the county where the offense was committed. In addition,
23whenever any person is placed on supervision for committing an
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1the performance of the community service.
2 (b) In addition to any other penalties imposed against an
3offender under this Act, the court may sentence the offender to
4service in a work alternative program administered by the
5sheriff. The conditions of the program are that the offender
6obtain or retain employment and participate in a work
7alternative program administered by the sheriff during
8non-working hours. A person may not be required to participate
9in a work alternative program under this subsection if the
10person is currently participating in a work program pursuant to
11another provision of this Act, Section 10-11.1 of the Illinois
12Public Aid Code, Section 505.1 of the Illinois Marriage and
13Dissolution of Marriage Act, or Section 806 15.1 of the
14Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984.
15 (c) In addition to any other penalties imposed against an
16offender under this Act, the court may order, in cases where
17the offender has been in violation of this Act for 90 days or
18more, that the offender's Illinois driving privileges be
19suspended until the court determines that the offender is in
20compliance with this Act.
21 The court may determine that the offender is in compliance
22with this Act if the offender has agreed (i) to pay all
23required amounts of support and maintenance as determined by
24the court or (ii) to the garnishment of his or her income for
25the purpose of paying those amounts.
26 The court may also order that the offender be issued a

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1family financial responsibility driving permit that would
2allow limited driving privileges for employment and medical
3purposes in accordance with Section 7-702.1 of the Illinois
4Vehicle Code. The clerk of the circuit court shall certify the
5order suspending the driving privileges of the offender or
6granting the issuance of a family financial responsibility
7driving permit to the Secretary of State on forms prescribed by
8the Secretary. Upon receipt of the authenticated documents, the
9Secretary of State shall suspend the offender's driving
10privileges until further order of the court and shall, if
11ordered by the court, subject to the provisions of Section
127-702.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, issue a family financial
13responsibility driving permit to the offender.
14 (d) If the court determines that the offender has been in
15violation of this Act for more than 60 days, the court may
16determine whether the offender has applied for or been issued a
17professional license by the Department of Professional
18Regulation or another licensing agency. If the court determines
19that the offender has applied for or been issued such a
20license, the court may certify to the Department of
21Professional Regulation or other licensing agency that the
22offender has been in violation of this Act for more than 60
23days so that the Department or other agency may take
24appropriate steps with respect to the license or application as
25provided in Section 10-65 of the Illinois Administrative
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1Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of
2Illinois. The court may take the actions required under this
3subsection in addition to imposing any other penalty authorized
4under this Act.
5(Source: P.A. 91-613, eff. 10-1-99; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02.)
6 Section 968. The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act is
7amended by changing Section 102 as follows:
8 (750 ILCS 22/102) (was 750 ILCS 22/101)
9 Sec. 102. Definitions. In this Act:
10 "Child" means an individual, whether over or under the age
11of 18, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the
12individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the
13beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.
14 "Child-support order" means a support order for a child,
15including a child who has attained the age of 18.
16 "Duty of support" means an obligation imposed or imposable
17by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse
18including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support.
19 "Home state" means the state in which a child lived with a
20parent or a person acting as parent for at least 6 consecutive
21months immediately preceding the time of filing of a petition
22or comparable pleading for support, and if a child is less than
236 months old, the state in which the child lived from birth
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1is counted as part of the 6-month or other period.
2 "Income" includes earnings or other periodic entitlements
3to money from any source and any other property subject to
4withholding for support under the law of this State.
5 "Income-withholding order" means an order or other legal
6process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as
7defined by the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
8Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act, the
9Non-Support Punishment Act the Illinois Public Aid Code, and
10the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984, to withhold support
11from the income of the obligor.
12 "Initiating state" means a state from which a proceeding is
13forwarded or in which a proceeding is filed for forwarding to a
14responding state under this Act or a law or procedure
15substantially similar to this Act.
16 "Initiating tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in an
17initiating state.
18 "Issuing state" means the state in which a tribunal issues
19a support order or renders a judgment determining parentage.
20 "Issuing tribunal" means the tribunal that issues a support
21order or renders a judgment determining parentage.
22 "Obligee" means:
23 (A) an individual to whom a duty of support is or is
24 alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order has
25 been issued or a judgment determining parentage has been
26 rendered;

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1 (B) a state or political subdivision to which the
2 rights under a duty of support or support order have been
3 assigned or which has independent claims based on financial
4 assistance provided to an individual obligee; or
5 (C) an individual seeking a judgment determining
6 parentage of the individual's child.
7 "Obligor" means an individual, or the estate of a decedent:
8 (i) who owes or is alleged to owe a duty of
9 support;
10 (ii) who is alleged but has not been adjudicated to
11 be a parent of a child; or
12 (iii) who is liable under a support order.
13 "Person means an individual, corporation, business trust,
14estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company,
15association, joint venture, government, governmental
16subdivision, agency, instrumentality, public corporation, or
17any other legal or commercial entity.
18 "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible
19medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and
20is retrievable in perceivable form.
21 "Register" means to record a support order or judgment
22determining parentage in the appropriate Registry of Foreign
23Support Orders.
24 "Registering tribunal" means a tribunal in which a support
25order is registered.
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1filed or to which a proceeding is forwarded for filing from an
2initiating state under this Act or a law or procedure
3substantially similar to this Act.
4 "Responding tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in a
5responding state.
6 "Spousal-support order" means a support order for a spouse
7or former spouse of the obligor.
8 "State" means a state of the United States, the District of
9Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any
10territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of
11the United States. The term includes:
12 (A) an Indian tribe; and
13 (B) a foreign country or political subdivision that:
14 (i) has been declared to be a foreign reciprocating
15 country or political subdivision under federal law;
16 (ii) has established a reciprocal arrangement for
17 child support with this State as provided in Section
18 308; or
19 (iii) has enacted a law or established procedures
20 for issuance and enforcement of support orders which
21 are substantially similar to the procedures under this
22 Act.
23 "Support enforcement agency" means a public official or
24agency authorized to seek:
25 (A) enforcement of support orders or laws relating to
26 the duty of support;

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1 (B) establishment or modification of child support;
2 (C) determination of parentage;
3 (D) to locate obligors or their assets; or
4 (E) determination of the controlling child support
5 order.
6 "Support order" means a judgment, decree, order, or
7directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to
8modification, issued by a tribunal for the benefit of a child,
9a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary
10support, health care, arrearages, or reimbursement, and may
11include related costs and fees, interest, income withholding,
12attorney's fees, and other relief.
13 "Tribunal" means a court, administrative agency, or
14quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or
15modify support orders or to determine parentage.
16(Source: P.A. 93-479, eff. 1-1-04, operative 7-1-04.)
17 Section 969. The Expedited Child Support Act of 1990 is
18amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
19 (750 ILCS 25/6) (from Ch. 40, par. 2706)
20 Sec. 6. Authority of hearing officers.
21 (a) With the exception of judicial functions exclusively
22retained by the court in Section 8 of this Act and in
23accordance with Supreme Court rules promulgated pursuant to
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1to:
2 (1) Accept voluntary agreements reached by the parties
3 setting the amount of child support to be paid and medical
4 support liability and recommend the entry of orders
5 incorporating such agreements.
6 (2) Accept voluntary acknowledgments of parentage and
7 recommend entry of an order establishing parentage based on
8 such acknowledgement. Prior to accepting such
9 acknowledgment, the Administrative Hearing Officer shall
10 advise the putative father of his rights and obligations in
11 accordance with Supreme Court rules promulgated pursuant
12 to this Act.
13 (3) Manage all stages of discovery, including setting
14 deadlines by which discovery must be completed; and
15 directing the parties to submit to appropriate tests
16 pursuant to Section 11 of the Illinois Parentage Act of
17 2014 1984.
18 (4) Cause notices to be issued requiring the Obligor to
19 appear either before the Administrative Hearing Officer or
20 in court.
21 (5) Administer the oath or affirmation and take
22 testimony under oath or affirmation.
23 (6) Analyze the evidence and prepare written
24 recommendations based on such evidence, including but not
25 limited to: (i) proposed findings as to the amount of the
26 Obligor's income; (ii) proposed findings as to the amount

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1 and nature of appropriate deductions from the Obligor's
2 income to determine the Obligor's net income; (iii)
3 proposed findings as to the existence of relevant factors
4 as set forth in subsection (a)(2) of Section 505 of the
5 Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, which
6 justify setting child support payment levels above or below
7 the guidelines; (iv) recommended orders for temporary
8 child support; (v) recommended orders setting the amount of
9 current child support to be paid; (vi) proposed findings as
10 to the existence and amount of any arrearages; (vii)
11 recommended orders reducing any arrearages to judgement
12 and for the payment of amounts towards such arrearages;
13 (viii) proposed findings as to whether there has been a
14 substantial change of circumstances since the entry of the
15 last child support order, or other circumstances
16 justifying a modification of the child support order; and
17 (ix) proposed findings as to whether the Obligor is
18 employed.
19 (7) With respect to any unemployed Obligor who is not
20 making child support payments or is otherwise unable to
21 provide support, recommend that the Obligor be ordered to
22 seek employment and report periodically of his or her
23 efforts in accordance with such order. Additionally, the
24 Administrative Hearing Officer may recommend that the
25 Obligor be ordered to report to the Department of
26 Employment Security for job search services or to make

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1 application with the local Job Training Partnership Act
2 provider for participation in job search, training or work
3 programs and, where the duty of support is owed to a child
4 receiving child support enforcement services under Article
5 X of the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Administrative
6 Hearing Officer may recommend that the Obligor be ordered
7 to report to the Department of Healthcare and Family
8 Services for participation in the job search, training or
9 work programs established under Section 9-6 of the Illinois
10 Public Aid Code.
11 (8) Recommend the registration of any foreign support
12 judgments or orders as the judgments or orders of Illinois.
13 (b) In any case in which the Obligee is not participating
14in the IV-D program or has not applied to participate in the
15IV-D program, the Administrative Hearing Officer shall:
16 (1) inform the Obligee of the existence of the IV-D
17 program and provide applications on request; and
18 (2) inform the Obligee and the Obligor of the option of
19 requesting payment to be made through the Clerk of the
20 Circuit Court.
21 If a request for payment through the Clerk is made, the
22Administrative Hearing Officer shall note this fact in the
23recommendations to the court.
24 (c) The Administrative Hearing Officer may make
25recommendations in addition to the proposed findings of fact
26and recommended order to which the parties have agreed.

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1(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
2 Section 970. The Income Withholding for Support Act is
3amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
4 (750 ILCS 28/15)
5 Sec. 15. Definitions.
6 (a) "Order for support" means any order of the court which
7provides for periodic payment of funds for the support of a
8child or maintenance of a spouse, whether temporary or final,
9and includes any such order which provides for:
10 (1) modification or resumption of, or payment of
11 arrearage, including interest, accrued under, a previously
12 existing order;
13 (2) reimbursement of support;
14 (3) payment or reimbursement of the expenses of
15 pregnancy and delivery (for orders for support entered
16 under the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 or its predecessor
17 the Paternity Act or under the Illinois Parentage Act of
18 2014); or
19 (4) enrollment in a health insurance plan that is
20 available to the obligor through an employer or labor union
21 or trade union.
22 (b) "Arrearage" means the total amount of unpaid support
23obligations, including interest, as determined by the court and
24incorporated into an order for support.

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1 (b-5) "Business day" means a day on which State offices are
2open for regular business.
3 (c) "Delinquency" means any payment, including a payment of
4interest, under an order for support which becomes due and
5remains unpaid after entry of the order for support.
6 (d) "Income" means any form of periodic payment to an
7individual, regardless of source, including, but not limited
8to: wages, salary, commission, compensation as an independent
9contractor, workers' compensation, disability, annuity,
10pension, and retirement benefits, lottery prize awards,
11insurance proceeds, vacation pay, bonuses, profit-sharing
12payments, severance pay, interest, and any other payments, made
13by any person, private entity, federal or state government, any
14unit of local government, school district or any entity created
15by Public Act; however, "income" excludes:
16 (1) any amounts required by law to be withheld, other
17 than creditor claims, including, but not limited to,
18 federal, State and local taxes, Social Security and other
19 retirement and disability contributions;
20 (2) union dues;
21 (3) any amounts exempted by the federal Consumer Credit
22 Protection Act;
23 (4) public assistance payments; and
24 (5) unemployment insurance benefits except as provided
25 by law.
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1or the amount or percentage of income that can be withheld
2shall not apply.
3 (e) "Obligor" means the individual who owes a duty to make
4payments under an order for support.
5 (f) "Obligee" means the individual to whom a duty of
6support is owed or the individual's legal representative.
7 (g) "Payor" means any payor of income to an obligor.
8 (h) "Public office" means any elected official or any State
9or local agency which is or may become responsible by law for
10enforcement of, or which is or may become authorized to
11enforce, an order for support, including, but not limited to:
12the Attorney General, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and
13Family Services, the Illinois Department of Human Services, the
14Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, and the
15various State's Attorneys, Clerks of the Circuit Court and
16supervisors of general assistance.
17 (i) "Premium" means the dollar amount for which the obligor
18is liable to his employer or labor union or trade union and
19which must be paid to enroll or maintain a child in a health
20insurance plan that is available to the obligor through an
21employer or labor union or trade union.
22 (j) "State Disbursement Unit" means the unit established to
23collect and disburse support payments in accordance with the
24provisions of Section 10-26 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
25 (k) "Title IV-D Agency" means the agency of this State
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1enforcement program established under Title IV, Part D of the
2Social Security Act and Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
3Code.
4 (l) "Title IV-D case" means a case in which an obligee or
5obligor is receiving child support enforcement services under
6Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act and Article X of
7the Illinois Public Aid Code.
8 (m) "National Medical Support Notice" means the notice
9required for enforcement of orders for support providing for
10health insurance coverage of a child under Title IV, Part D of
11the Social Security Act, the Employee Retirement Income
12Security Act of 1974, and federal regulations promulgated under
13those Acts.
14 (n) "Employer" means a payor or labor union or trade union
15with an employee group health insurance plan and, for purposes
16of the National Medical Support Notice, also includes but is
17not limited to:
18 (1) any State or local governmental agency with a group
19 health plan; and
20 (2) any payor with a group health plan or "church plan"
21 covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
22 of 1974.
23(Source: P.A. 94-90, eff. 1-1-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-685,
24eff. 10-23-07.)
25 Section 971. The Gestational Surrogacy Act is amended by

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1changing Section 35 as follows:
2 (750 ILCS 47/35)
3 Sec. 35. Establishment of the parent-child relationship.
4 (a) For purposes of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014
51984, a parent-child relationship shall be established prior to
6the birth of a child born through gestational surrogacy if, in
7addition to satisfying the requirements of Articles 2 and 3
8Sections 5 and 6 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984,
9the attorneys representing both the gestational surrogate and
10the intended parent or parents certify that the parties entered
11into a gestational surrogacy contract intended to satisfy the
12requirements of Section 25 of this Act with respect to the
13child.
14 (b) The attorneys' certifications required by subsection
15(a) of this Section shall be filed on forms prescribed by the
16Illinois Department of Public Health and in a manner consistent
17with the requirement of the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014
181984.
19(Source: P.A. 93-921, eff. 1-1-05.)
20 Section 972. The Adoption Act is amended by changing
21Sections 1, 8, 12a, and 18.06 as follows:
22 (750 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 40, par. 1501)
23 Sec. 1. Definitions. When used in this Act, unless the

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1context otherwise requires:
2 A. "Child" means a person under legal age subject to
3adoption under this Act.
4 B. "Related child" means a child subject to adoption where
5either or both of the adopting parents stands in any of the
6following relationships to the child by blood or marriage:
7parent, grand-parent, brother, sister, step-parent,
8step-grandparent, step-brother, step-sister, uncle, aunt,
9great-uncle, great-aunt, or cousin of first degree. A child
10whose parent has executed a final irrevocable consent to
11adoption or a final irrevocable surrender for purposes of
12adoption, or whose parent has had his or her parental rights
13terminated, is not a related child to that person, unless the
14consent is determined to be void or is void pursuant to
15subsection O of Section 10.
16 C. "Agency" for the purpose of this Act means a public
17child welfare agency or a licensed child welfare agency.
18 D. "Unfit person" means any person whom the court shall
19find to be unfit to have a child, without regard to the
20likelihood that the child will be placed for adoption. The
21grounds of unfitness are any one or more of the following,
22except that a person shall not be considered an unfit person
23for the sole reason that the person has relinquished a child in
24accordance with the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act:
25 (a) Abandonment of the child.
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1 (a-2) Abandonment of a newborn infant in any setting
2 where the evidence suggests that the parent intended to
3 relinquish his or her parental rights.
4 (b) Failure to maintain a reasonable degree of
5 interest, concern or responsibility as to the child's
6 welfare.
7 (c) Desertion of the child for more than 3 months next
8 preceding the commencement of the Adoption proceeding.
9 (d) Substantial neglect of the child if continuous or
10 repeated.
11 (d-1) Substantial neglect, if continuous or repeated,
12 of any child residing in the household which resulted in
13 the death of that child.
14 (e) Extreme or repeated cruelty to the child.
15 (f) There is a rebuttable presumption, which can be
16 overcome only by clear and convincing evidence, that a
17 parent is unfit if:
18 (1) Two or more findings of physical abuse have
19 been entered regarding any children under Section 2-21
20 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, the most recent of
21 which was determined by the juvenile court hearing the
22 matter to be supported by clear and convincing
23 evidence; or
24 (2) The parent has been convicted or found not
25 guilty by reason of insanity and the conviction or
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1 physical abuse; or
2 (3) There is a finding of physical child abuse
3 resulting from the death of any child under Section
4 2-21 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
5 No conviction or finding of delinquency pursuant
6 to Article V 5 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 shall
7 be considered a criminal conviction for the purpose of
8 applying any presumption under this item (f).
9 (g) Failure to protect the child from conditions within
10 his environment injurious to the child's welfare.
11 (h) Other neglect of, or misconduct toward the child;
12 provided that in making a finding of unfitness the court
13 hearing the adoption proceeding shall not be bound by any
14 previous finding, order or judgment affecting or
15 determining the rights of the parents toward the child
16 sought to be adopted in any other proceeding except such
17 proceedings terminating parental rights as shall be had
18 under either this Act, the Juvenile Court Act or the
19 Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
20 (i) Depravity. Conviction of any one of the following
21 crimes shall create a presumption that a parent is depraved
22 which can be overcome only by clear and convincing
23 evidence: (1) first degree murder in violation of paragraph
24 1 or 2 of subsection (a) of Section 9-1 of the Criminal
25 Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 or conviction of
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1 Section 9-2 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal
2 Code of 2012 of a parent of the child to be adopted; (2)
3 first degree murder or second degree murder of any child in
4 violation of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code
5 of 2012; (3) attempt or conspiracy to commit first degree
6 murder or second degree murder of any child in violation of
7 the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012; (4)
8 solicitation to commit murder of any child, solicitation to
9 commit murder of any child for hire, or solicitation to
10 commit second degree murder of any child in violation of
11 the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012; (5)
12 predatory criminal sexual assault of a child in violation
13 of Section 11-1.40 or 12-14.1 of the Criminal Code of 1961
14 or the Criminal Code of 2012; (6) heinous battery of any
15 child in violation of the Criminal Code of 1961; or (7)
16 aggravated battery of any child in violation of the
17 Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012.
18 There is a rebuttable presumption that a parent is
19 depraved if the parent has been criminally convicted of at
20 least 3 felonies under the laws of this State or any other
21 state, or under federal law, or the criminal laws of any
22 United States territory; and at least one of these
23 convictions took place within 5 years of the filing of the
24 petition or motion seeking termination of parental rights.
25 There is a rebuttable presumption that a parent is
26 depraved if that parent has been criminally convicted of

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1 either first or second degree murder of any person as
2 defined in the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code
3 of 2012 within 10 years of the filing date of the petition
4 or motion to terminate parental rights.
5 No conviction or finding of delinquency pursuant to
6 Article 5 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 shall be
7 considered a criminal conviction for the purpose of
8 applying any presumption under this item (i).
9 (j) Open and notorious adultery or fornication.
10 (j-1) (Blank).
11 (k) Habitual drunkenness or addiction to drugs, other
12 than those prescribed by a physician, for at least one year
13 immediately prior to the commencement of the unfitness
14 proceeding.
15 There is a rebuttable presumption that a parent is
16 unfit under this subsection with respect to any child to
17 which that parent gives birth where there is a confirmed
18 test result that at birth the child's blood, urine, or
19 meconium contained any amount of a controlled substance as
20 defined in subsection (f) of Section 102 of the Illinois
21 Controlled Substances Act or metabolites of such
22 substances, the presence of which in the newborn infant was
23 not the result of medical treatment administered to the
24 mother or the newborn infant; and the biological mother of
25 this child is the biological mother of at least one other
26 child who was adjudicated a neglected minor under

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1 subsection (c) of Section 2-3 of the Juvenile Court Act of
2 1987.
3 (l) Failure to demonstrate a reasonable degree of
4 interest, concern or responsibility as to the welfare of a
5 new born child during the first 30 days after its birth.
6 (m) Failure by a parent (i) to make reasonable efforts
7 to correct the conditions that were the basis for the
8 removal of the child from the parent during any 9-month
9 period following the adjudication of neglected or abused
10 minor under Section 2-3 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987
11 or dependent minor under Section 2-4 of that Act, or (ii)
12 to make reasonable progress toward the return of the child
13 to the parent during any 9-month period following the
14 adjudication of neglected or abused minor under Section 2-3
15 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or dependent minor under
16 Section 2-4 of that Act. If a service plan has been
17 established as required under Section 8.2 of the Abused and
18 Neglected Child Reporting Act to correct the conditions
19 that were the basis for the removal of the child from the
20 parent and if those services were available, then, for
21 purposes of this Act, "failure to make reasonable progress
22 toward the return of the child to the parent" includes the
23 parent's failure to substantially fulfill his or her
24 obligations under the service plan and correct the
25 conditions that brought the child into care during any
26 9-month period following the adjudication under Section

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1 2-3 or 2-4 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
2 Notwithstanding any other provision, when a petition or
3 motion seeks to terminate parental rights on the basis of
4 item (ii) of this subsection (m), the petitioner shall file
5 with the court and serve on the parties a pleading that
6 specifies the 9-month period or periods relied on. The
7 pleading shall be filed and served on the parties no later
8 than 3 weeks before the date set by the court for closure
9 of discovery, and the allegations in the pleading shall be
10 treated as incorporated into the petition or motion.
11 Failure of a respondent to file a written denial of the
12 allegations in the pleading shall not be treated as an
13 admission that the allegations are true.
14 (m-1) Pursuant to the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, a
15 child has been in foster care for 15 months out of any 22
16 month period which begins on or after the effective date of
17 this amendatory Act of 1998 unless the child's parent can
18 prove by a preponderance of the evidence that it is more
19 likely than not that it will be in the best interests of
20 the child to be returned to the parent within 6 months of
21 the date on which a petition for termination of parental
22 rights is filed under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. The
23 15 month time limit is tolled during any period for which
24 there is a court finding that the appointed custodian or
25 guardian failed to make reasonable efforts to reunify the
26 child with his or her family, provided that (i) the finding

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1 of no reasonable efforts is made within 60 days of the
2 period when reasonable efforts were not made or (ii) the
3 parent filed a motion requesting a finding of no reasonable
4 efforts within 60 days of the period when reasonable
5 efforts were not made. For purposes of this subdivision
6 (m-1), the date of entering foster care is the earlier of:
7 (i) the date of a judicial finding at an adjudicatory
8 hearing that the child is an abused, neglected, or
9 dependent minor; or (ii) 60 days after the date on which
10 the child is removed from his or her parent, guardian, or
11 legal custodian.
12 (n) Evidence of intent to forgo his or her parental
13 rights, whether or not the child is a ward of the court,
14 (1) as manifested by his or her failure for a period of 12
15 months: (i) to visit the child, (ii) to communicate with
16 the child or agency, although able to do so and not
17 prevented from doing so by an agency or by court order, or
18 (iii) to maintain contact with or plan for the future of
19 the child, although physically able to do so, or (2) as
20 manifested by the father's failure, where he and the mother
21 of the child were unmarried to each other at the time of
22 the child's birth, (i) to commence legal proceedings to
23 establish his paternity under the Illinois Parentage Act of
24 1984, the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014, or the law of the
25 jurisdiction of the child's birth within 30 days of being
26 informed, pursuant to Section 12a of this Act, that he is

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1 the father or the likely father of the child or, after
2 being so informed where the child is not yet born, within
3 30 days of the child's birth, or (ii) to make a good faith
4 effort to pay a reasonable amount of the expenses related
5 to the birth of the child and to provide a reasonable
6 amount for the financial support of the child, the court to
7 consider in its determination all relevant circumstances,
8 including the financial condition of both parents;
9 provided that the ground for termination provided in this
10 subparagraph (n)(2)(ii) shall only be available where the
11 petition is brought by the mother or the husband of the
12 mother.
13 Contact or communication by a parent with his or her
14 child that does not demonstrate affection and concern does
15 not constitute reasonable contact and planning under
16 subdivision (n). In the absence of evidence to the
17 contrary, the ability to visit, communicate, maintain
18 contact, pay expenses and plan for the future shall be
19 presumed. The subjective intent of the parent, whether
20 expressed or otherwise, unsupported by evidence of the
21 foregoing parental acts manifesting that intent, shall not
22 preclude a determination that the parent has intended to
23 forgo his or her parental rights. In making this
24 determination, the court may consider but shall not require
25 a showing of diligent efforts by an authorized agency to
26 encourage the parent to perform the acts specified in

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1 subdivision (n).
2 It shall be an affirmative defense to any allegation
3 under paragraph (2) of this subsection that the father's
4 failure was due to circumstances beyond his control or to
5 impediments created by the mother or any other person
6 having legal custody. Proof of that fact need only be by a
7 preponderance of the evidence.
8 (o) Repeated or continuous failure by the parents,
9 although physically and financially able, to provide the
10 child with adequate food, clothing, or shelter.
11 (p) Inability to discharge parental responsibilities
12 supported by competent evidence from a psychiatrist,
13 licensed clinical social worker, or clinical psychologist
14 of mental impairment, mental illness or an intellectual
15 disability as defined in Section 1-116 of the Mental Health
16 and Developmental Disabilities Code, or developmental
17 disability as defined in Section 1-106 of that Code, and
18 there is sufficient justification to believe that the
19 inability to discharge parental responsibilities shall
20 extend beyond a reasonable time period. However, this
21 subdivision (p) shall not be construed so as to permit a
22 licensed clinical social worker to conduct any medical
23 diagnosis to determine mental illness or mental
24 impairment.
25 (q) (Blank).
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1 guardianship of the Department of Children and Family
2 Services, the parent is incarcerated as a result of
3 criminal conviction at the time the petition or motion for
4 termination of parental rights is filed, prior to
5 incarceration the parent had little or no contact with the
6 child or provided little or no support for the child, and
7 the parent's incarceration will prevent the parent from
8 discharging his or her parental responsibilities for the
9 child for a period in excess of 2 years after the filing of
10 the petition or motion for termination of parental rights.
11 (s) The child is in the temporary custody or
12 guardianship of the Department of Children and Family
13 Services, the parent is incarcerated at the time the
14 petition or motion for termination of parental rights is
15 filed, the parent has been repeatedly incarcerated as a
16 result of criminal convictions, and the parent's repeated
17 incarceration has prevented the parent from discharging
18 his or her parental responsibilities for the child.
19 (t) A finding that at birth the child's blood, urine,
20 or meconium contained any amount of a controlled substance
21 as defined in subsection (f) of Section 102 of the Illinois
22 Controlled Substances Act, or a metabolite of a controlled
23 substance, with the exception of controlled substances or
24 metabolites of such substances, the presence of which in
25 the newborn infant was the result of medical treatment
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1 the biological mother of this child is the biological
2 mother of at least one other child who was adjudicated a
3 neglected minor under subsection (c) of Section 2-3 of the
4 Juvenile Court Act of 1987, after which the biological
5 mother had the opportunity to enroll in and participate in
6 a clinically appropriate substance abuse counseling,
7 treatment, and rehabilitation program.
8 E. "Parent" means the father or mother of a lawful child of
9the parties or child born out of wedlock. For the purpose of
10this Act, a person who has executed a final and irrevocable
11consent to adoption or a final and irrevocable surrender for
12purposes of adoption, or whose parental rights have been
13terminated by a court, is not a parent of the child who was the
14subject of the consent or surrender, unless the consent is void
15pursuant to subsection O of Section 10.
16 F. A person is available for adoption when the person is:
17 (a) a child who has been surrendered for adoption to an
18 agency and to whose adoption the agency has thereafter
19 consented;
20 (b) a child to whose adoption a person authorized by
21 law, other than his parents, has consented, or to whose
22 adoption no consent is required pursuant to Section 8 of
23 this Act;
24 (c) a child who is in the custody of persons who intend
25 to adopt him through placement made by his parents;
26 (c-1) a child for whom a parent has signed a specific

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1 consent pursuant to subsection O of Section 10;
2 (d) an adult who meets the conditions set forth in
3 Section 3 of this Act; or
4 (e) a child who has been relinquished as defined in
5 Section 10 of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act.
6 A person who would otherwise be available for adoption
7shall not be deemed unavailable for adoption solely by reason
8of his or her death.
9 G. The singular includes the plural and the plural includes
10the singular and the "male" includes the "female", as the
11context of this Act may require.
12 H. "Adoption disruption" occurs when an adoptive placement
13does not prove successful and it becomes necessary for the
14child to be removed from placement before the adoption is
15finalized.
16 I. "Habitual residence" has the meaning ascribed to it in
17the federal Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 and regulations
18promulgated thereunder.
19 J. "Immediate relatives" means the biological parents, the
20parents of the biological parents and siblings of the
21biological parents.
22 K. "Intercountry adoption" is a process by which a child
23from a country other than the United States is adopted by
24persons who are habitual residents of the United States, or the
25child is a habitual resident of the United States who is
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1other than the United States.
2 L. "Intercountry Adoption Coordinator" means a staff
3person of the Department of Children and Family Services
4appointed by the Director to coordinate the provision of
5services related to an intercountry adoption.
6 M. "Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children" is a
7law enacted by all states and certain territories for the
8purpose of establishing uniform procedures for handling the
9interstate placement of children in foster homes, adoptive
10homes, or other child care facilities.
11 N. (Blank).
12 O. "Preadoption requirements" means any conditions or
13standards established by the laws or administrative rules of
14this State that must be met by a prospective adoptive parent
15prior to the placement of a child in an adoptive home.
16 P. "Abused child" means a child whose parent or immediate
17family member, or any person responsible for the child's
18welfare, or any individual residing in the same home as the
19child, or a paramour of the child's parent:
20 (a) inflicts, causes to be inflicted, or allows to be
21 inflicted upon the child physical injury, by other than
22 accidental means, that causes death, disfigurement,
23 impairment of physical or emotional health, or loss or
24 impairment of any bodily function;
25 (b) creates a substantial risk of physical injury to
26 the child by other than accidental means which would be

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1 likely to cause death, disfigurement, impairment of
2 physical or emotional health, or loss or impairment of any
3 bodily function;
4 (c) commits or allows to be committed any sex offense
5 against the child, as sex offenses are defined in the
6 Criminal Code of 2012 and extending those definitions of
7 sex offenses to include children under 18 years of age;
8 (d) commits or allows to be committed an act or acts of
9 torture upon the child; or
10 (e) inflicts excessive corporal punishment.
11 Q. "Neglected child" means any child whose parent or other
12person responsible for the child's welfare withholds or denies
13nourishment or medically indicated treatment including food or
14care denied solely on the basis of the present or anticipated
15mental or physical impairment as determined by a physician
16acting alone or in consultation with other physicians or
17otherwise does not provide the proper or necessary support,
18education as required by law, or medical or other remedial care
19recognized under State law as necessary for a child's
20well-being, or other care necessary for his or her well-being,
21including adequate food, clothing and shelter; or who is
22abandoned by his or her parents or other person responsible for
23the child's welfare.
24 A child shall not be considered neglected or abused for the
25sole reason that the child's parent or other person responsible
26for his or her welfare depends upon spiritual means through

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1prayer alone for the treatment or cure of disease or remedial
2care as provided under Section 4 of the Abused and Neglected
3Child Reporting Act. A child shall not be considered neglected
4or abused for the sole reason that the child's parent or other
5person responsible for the child's welfare failed to vaccinate,
6delayed vaccination, or refused vaccination for the child due
7to a waiver on religious or medical grounds as permitted by
8law.
9 R. "Putative father" means a man who may be a child's
10father, but who (1) is not married to the child's mother on or
11before the date that the child was or is to be born and (2) has
12not established paternity of the child in a court proceeding
13before the filing of a petition for the adoption of the child.
14The term includes a male who is less than 18 years of age.
15"Putative father" does not mean a man who is the child's father
16as a result of criminal sexual abuse or assault as defined
17under Article 11 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
18 S. "Standby adoption" means an adoption in which a parent
19consents to custody and termination of parental rights to
20become effective upon the occurrence of a future event, which
21is either the death of the parent or the request of the parent
22for the entry of a final judgment of adoption.
23 T. (Blank).
24 U. "Interstate adoption" means the placement of a minor
25child with a prospective adoptive parent for the purpose of
26pursuing an adoption for that child that is subject to the

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1provisions of the Interstate Compact on Placement of Children.
2 V. "Endorsement letter" means the letter issued by the
3Department of Children and Family Services to document that a
4prospective adoptive parent has met preadoption requirements
5and has been deemed suitable by the Department to adopt a child
6who is the subject of an intercountry adoption.
7 W. "Denial letter" means the letter issued by the
8Department of Children and Family Services to document that a
9prospective adoptive parent has not met preadoption
10requirements and has not been deemed suitable by the Department
11to adopt a child who is the subject of an intercountry
12adoption.
13(Source: P.A. 97-227, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13;
1497-1150, eff. 1-25-13; 98-455, eff. 1-1-14; 98-532, eff.
151-1-14; revised 9-24-13.)
16 (750 ILCS 50/8) (from Ch. 40, par. 1510)
17 Sec. 8. Consents to adoption and surrenders for purposes of
18adoption.
19 (a) Except as hereinafter provided in this Section consents
20or surrenders shall be required in all cases, unless the person
21whose consent or surrender would otherwise be required shall be
22found by the court:
23 (1) to be an unfit person as defined in Section 1 of
24 this Act, by clear and convincing evidence; or
25 (2) not to be the biological or adoptive father of the

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1 child; or
2 (3) to have waived his parental rights to the child
3 under Section 12a or 12.1 or subsection S of Section 10 of
4 this Act; or
5 (4) to be the parent of an adult sought to be adopted;
6 or
7 (5) to be the father of the child as a result of
8 criminal sexual abuse or assault as defined under Article
9 11 of the Criminal Code of 2012; or
10 (6) to be the father of a child who:
11 (i) is a family member of the mother of the child,
12 and the mother is under the age of 18 at the time of
13 the child's conception; for purposes of this
14 subsection, a "family member" is a parent,
15 step-parent, grandparent, step-grandparent, sibling,
16 or cousin of the first degree, whether by whole blood,
17 half-blood, or adoption, as well as a person age 18 or
18 over at the time of the child's conception who has
19 resided in the household with the mother continuously
20 for at least one year; or
21 (ii) is at least 5 years older than the child's
22 mother, and the mother was under the age of 17 at the
23 time of the child's conception, unless the mother and
24 father voluntarily acknowledge the father's paternity
25 of the child by marrying or by establishing the
26 father's paternity by consent of the parties pursuant

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1 to the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984 or pursuant
2 to a substantially similar statute in another state.
3 A criminal conviction of any offense pursuant to
4 Section 11-1.20, 11-1.30, 11-1.40, 11-1.50, 11-1.60,
5 11-1.70, 12C-5, 12C-10, 12C-35, 12C-40, 12C-45, 18-6,
6 19-6, or Article 12 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the
7 Criminal Code of 2012 is not required.
8 (b) Where consents are required in the case of an adoption
9of a minor child, the consents of the following persons shall
10be sufficient:
11 (1) (A) The mother of the minor child; and
12 (B) The father of the minor child, if the father:
13 (i) was married to the mother on the date of
14 birth of the child or within 300 days before the
15 birth of the child, except for a husband or former
16 husband who has been found by a court of competent
17 jurisdiction not to be the biological father of the
18 child; or
19 (ii) is the father of the child under a
20 judgment for adoption, an order of parentage, or an
21 acknowledgment of parentage or paternity pursuant
22 to subsection (a) of Section 5 of the Illinois
23 Parentage Act of 1984 or pursuant to Article 3 of
24 the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014; or
25 (iii) in the case of a child placed with the
26 adopting parents less than 6 months after birth,

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1 openly lived with the child, the child's
2 biological mother, or both, and held himself out to
3 be the child's biological father during the first
4 30 days following the birth of the child; or
5 (iv) in the case of a child placed with the
6 adopting parents less than 6 months after birth,
7 made a good faith effort to pay a reasonable amount
8 of the expenses related to the birth of the child
9 and to provide a reasonable amount for the
10 financial support of the child before the
11 expiration of 30 days following the birth of the
12 child, provided that the court may consider in its
13 determination all relevant circumstances,
14 including the financial condition of both
15 biological parents; or
16 (v) in the case of a child placed with the
17 adopting parents more than 6 months after birth,
18 has maintained substantial and continuous or
19 repeated contact with the child as manifested by:
20 (I) the payment by the father toward the support of
21 the child of a fair and reasonable sum, according
22 to the father's means, and either (II) the father's
23 visiting the child at least monthly when
24 physically and financially able to do so and not
25 prevented from doing so by the person or authorized
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1 the father's regular communication with the child
2 or with the person or agency having the care or
3 custody of the child, when physically and
4 financially unable to visit the child or prevented
5 from doing so by the person or authorized agency
6 having lawful custody of the child. The subjective
7 intent of the father, whether expressed or
8 otherwise unsupported by evidence of acts
9 specified in this sub-paragraph as manifesting
10 such intent, shall not preclude a determination
11 that the father failed to maintain substantial and
12 continuous or repeated contact with the child; or
13 (vi) in the case of a child placed with the
14 adopting parents more than six months after birth,
15 openly lived with the child for a period of six
16 months within the one year period immediately
17 preceding the placement of the child for adoption
18 and openly held himself out to be the father of the
19 child; or
20 (vii) has timely registered with Putative
21 Father Registry, as provided in Section 12.1 of
22 this Act, and prior to the expiration of 30 days
23 from the date of such registration, commenced
24 legal proceedings to establish paternity under the
25 Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, under the Illinois
26 Parentage Act of 2014, or under the law of the

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1 jurisdiction of the child's birth; or
2 (2) The legal guardian of the person of the child, if
3 there is no surviving parent; or
4 (3) An agency, if the child has been surrendered for
5 adoption to such agency; or
6 (4) Any person or agency having legal custody of a
7 child by court order if the parental rights of the parents
8 have been judicially terminated, and the court having
9 jurisdiction of the guardianship of the child has
10 authorized the consent to the adoption; or
11 (5) The execution and verification of the petition by
12 any petitioner who is also a parent of the child sought to
13 be adopted shall be sufficient evidence of such parent's
14 consent to the adoption.
15 (c) Where surrenders to an agency are required in the case
16of a placement for adoption of a minor child by an agency, the
17surrenders of the following persons shall be sufficient:
18 (1) (A) The mother of the minor child; and
19 (B) The father of the minor child, if the father:
20 (i) was married to the mother on the date of
21 birth of the child or within 300 days before the
22 birth of the child, except for a husband or former
23 husband who has been found by a court of competent
24 jurisdiction not to be the biological father of the
25 child; or
26 (ii) is the father of the child under a

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1 judgment for adoption, an order of parentage, or an
2 acknowledgment of parentage or paternity pursuant
3 to subsection (a) of Section 5 of the Illinois
4 Parentage Act of 1984 or pursuant to Article 3 of
5 the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014; or
6 (iii) in the case of a child placed with the
7 adopting parents less than 6 months after birth,
8 openly lived with the child, the child's
9 biological mother, or both, and held himself out to
10 be the child's biological father during the first
11 30 days following the birth of a child; or
12 (iv) in the case of a child placed with the
13 adopting parents less than 6 months after birth,
14 made a good faith effort to pay a reasonable amount
15 of the expenses related to the birth of the child
16 and to provide a reasonable amount for the
17 financial support of the child before the
18 expiration of 30 days following the birth of the
19 child, provided that the court may consider in its
20 determination all relevant circumstances,
21 including the financial condition of both
22 biological parents; or
23 (v) in the case of a child placed with the
24 adopting parents more than six months after birth,
25 has maintained substantial and continuous or
26 repeated contact with the child as manifested by:

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1 (I) the payment by the father toward the support of
2 the child of a fair and reasonable sum, according
3 to the father's means, and either (II) the father's
4 visiting the child at least monthly when
5 physically and financially able to do so and not
6 prevented from doing so by the person or authorized
7 agency having lawful custody of the child or (III)
8 the father's regular communication with the child
9 or with the person or agency having the care or
10 custody of the child, when physically and
11 financially unable to visit the child or prevented
12 from doing so by the person or authorized agency
13 having lawful custody of the child. The subjective
14 intent of the father, whether expressed or
15 otherwise, unsupported by evidence of acts
16 specified in this sub-paragraph as manifesting
17 such intent, shall not preclude a determination
18 that the father failed to maintain substantial and
19 continuous or repeated contact with the child; or
20 (vi) in the case of a child placed with the
21 adopting parents more than six months after birth,
22 openly lived with the child for a period of six
23 months within the one year period immediately
24 preceding the placement of the child for adoption
25 and openly held himself out to be the father of the
26 child; or

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1 (vii) has timely registered with the Putative
2 Father Registry, as provided in Section 12.1 of
3 this Act, and prior to the expiration of 30 days
4 from the date of such registration, commenced
5 legal proceedings to establish paternity under the
6 Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, under the Illinois
7 Parentage Act of 2014, or under the law of the
8 jurisdiction of the child's birth.
9 (d) In making a determination under subparagraphs (b)(1)
10and (c)(1), no showing shall be required of diligent efforts by
11a person or agency to encourage the father to perform the acts
12specified therein.
13 (e) In the case of the adoption of an adult, only the
14consent of such adult shall be required.
15(Source: P.A. 97-493, eff. 8-22-11; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
16 (750 ILCS 50/12a) (from Ch. 40, par. 1515)
17 Sec. 12a. Notice to putative father.
18 1. Upon the written request to any Clerk of any Circuit
19Court, and upon the payment of a filing fee of $10.00, by any
20interested party, including persons intending to adopt a child,
21a child welfare agency with whom the mother has placed or has
22given written notice of her intention to place a child for
23adoption, the mother of a child, or any attorney representing
24an interested party, a notice, the declaration of paternity and
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1in the same manner as Summons is served in other civil
2proceedings, or, in lieu of personal service, service may be
3made as follows:
4 (a) The person requesting notice shall pay to the Clerk
5 of the Court a mailing fee of $2 plus the cost of U. S.
6 postage for certified or registered mail and furnish to the
7 Clerk an original and one copy of a notice, the declaration
8 of paternity and the disclaimer of paternity together with
9 an Affidavit setting forth the putative father's last known
10 address. The original notice, the declaration of paternity
11 and the disclaimer of paternity shall be retained by the
12 Clerk.
13 (b) The Clerk shall forthwith mail to the putative
14 father, at the address appearing in the Affidavit, the copy
15 of the notice, the declaration of paternity and the
16 disclaimer of paternity, by certified mail, return receipt
17 requested; the envelope and return receipt shall bear the
18 return address of the Clerk. The receipt for certified mail
19 shall state the name and address of the addressee, and the
20 date of mailing, and shall be attached to the original
21 notice.
22 (c) The return receipt, when returned to the Clerk,
23 shall be attached to the original notice, the declaration
24 of paternity and the disclaimer of paternity, and shall
25 constitute proof of service.
26 (d) The Clerk shall note the fact of service in a

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1 permanent record.
2 2. The notice shall be signed by the Clerk, and may be
3served on the putative father at any time after conception, and
4shall read as follows:
5 "IN THE MATTER OF NOTICE TO ....., PUTATIVE FATHER.
6 You have been identified as the father of a child born or
7expected to be born on or about (insert date).
8 The mother of the child is.....
9 The mother has indicated that she intends to place the
10child for adoption.
11 As the alleged father of the child, you have certain legal
12rights with respect to the child, including the right to notice
13of the filing of proceedings instituted for the adoption of the
14child. If you wish to retain your rights with respect to the
15child, you must file with the Clerk of this Circuit Court of
16.... County, Illinois, whose address is ...., Illinois, within
1730 days after the date of receipt of this notice, the
18declaration of paternity enclosed herewith stating that you
19are, in fact, the father of the child and that you intend to
20retain your legal rights with respect to the child, or request
21to be notified of any further proceedings with respect to
22custody or adoption of the child.
23 If you do not file such a declaration of paternity, or a
24request for notice, then whatever legal rights you have with
25respect to the child, including the right to notice of any
26future proceedings for the adoption of the child, may be

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1terminated without any further notice to you. When your legal
2rights with respect to the child are so terminated, you will
3not be entitled to notice of any proceeding instituted for the
4adoption of the child.
5 If you are not the father of the child, you may file with
6the Clerk of this Court the disclaimer of paternity enclosed
7herewith which will be noted in the Clerk's file and you will
8receive no further notice with respect to the child."
9 The declaration of paternity shall be substantially as
10follows:
11
"IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
12
.......... JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS
13
.......... County
14 )
15 )
16 ) No. )
17 )
18
DECLARATION OF PATERNITY WITH ENTRY OF APPEARANCE
19I, ........., state as follows:
20 (1) That I am ......... years of age; and I reside at
21......... in the County of ........., State of .........
22 (2) That I have been advised that ........ is the mother of
23a ...male child with the initials named ........ born or
24expected to be born on or about ......... and that such mother
25has stated that I am the father of this child.
26 (3) I declare that I am the father of this child.

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1 (4) I understand that the mother of this child wishes to
2consent to the adoption of this child. I do not consent to the
3adoption of this child, and I understand that I must return
4this initial declaration of parentage form to the Clerk of the
5Circuit Court of ....... County, located at ........., within
630 days of receipt of this notice.
7 (5) I further understand that I am also obligated to
8establish my paternity pursuant to the Illinois Parentage Act
9of 2014 1984 within 30 days of my receiving this notice or, if
10the child is not yet born, within 30 days after the birth of
11the child. This proceeding is separate and distinct from the
12above mailing of initial declaration of paternity; in this
13second notice, I must state that I am, in fact, the father of
14said child, and that I intend to retain my legal rights with
15respect to said child, and request to be notified of any
16further proceedings with respect to custody or adoption of the
17child.
18 (6) I hereby enter my appearance in the above entitled
19cause.
20
OATH
21 I have been duly sworn and I say under oath that I have
22read and understand this Declaration of Paternity With Entry of
23Appearance. The facts that it contains are true and correct to
24the best of my knowledge, and I understand that by signing this
25document I admit my paternity. I have signed this document as
26my free and voluntary act.

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1
...........
2
(signature)
3Dated (insert date).
4Signed and sworn before me on (insert date).
5
................
6
(notary public)".
7
8 The disclaimer of paternity shall be substantially as
9follows:
10
"IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
11
.......... JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS
12
.......... County
13 )
14 )
15 ) No. )
16 )
17
DENIAL OF PATERNITY WITH ENTRY OF APPEARANCE
18
AND CONSENT TO ADOPTION
19I, .........., state as follows:
20 (1) That I am ..... years of age; and I reside at
21.......... in the County of .........., State of ...........
22 (2) That I have been advised that .......... is the mother
23of a .....male child with the initials named ..... born or
24expected to be born on or about ..... and that such mother has
25stated that I am the father of this child.

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1 (3) I deny that I am the father of this child.
2 (4) I further understand that the mother of this child
3wishes to consent to the adoption of the child. I hereby
4consent to the adoption of this child, and waive any rights,
5remedies and defenses that I may now or in the future have as a
6result of the mother's allegation of the paternity of this
7child. This consent is being given in order to facilitate the
8adoption of the child and so that the court may terminate what
9rights I may have to the child as a result of being named the
10father by the mother. This consent is not in any manner an
11admission of paternity.
12 (5) I hereby enter my appearance in the above entitled
13cause and waive service of summons and other pleading.
14
OATH
15 I have been duly sworn and I say under oath that I have
16read and understood this Denial of Paternity With Entry of
17Appearance and Consent to Adoption. The facts it contains are
18true and correct to the best of my knowledge, and I understand
19that by signing this document I have not admitted paternity. I
20have signed this document as my free and voluntary act in order
21to facilitate the adoption of the child.
22
...........
23
(signature)
24Dated (insert date).
25Signed and sworn before me on (insert date).
26
.................

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1
(notary public)".
2
3 The names of adoptive parents shall not be included in the
4notice.
5 3. If the putative father files a disclaimer of paternity,
6he shall be deemed not to be the father of the child with
7respect to any adoption or other proceeding held to terminate
8the rights of parents as respects such child.
9 4. In the event the putative father does not file a
10declaration of paternity of the child or request for notice
11within 30 days of service of the above notice, he need not be
12made a party to or given notice of any proceeding brought for
13the adoption of the child. An Order or judgment may be entered
14in such proceeding terminating all of his rights with respect
15to the child without further notice to him.
16 5. If the putative father files a declaration of paternity
17or a request for notice in accordance with subsection 2, with
18respect to the child, he shall be given notice in event any
19proceeding is brought for the adoption of the child.
20 6. The Clerk shall maintain separate numbered files and
21records of requests and proofs of service and all other
22documents filed pursuant to this article. All such records
23shall be impounded.
24(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

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1 (750 ILCS 50/18.06)
2 Sec. 18.06. Definitions. When used in Sections 18.05
3through Section 18.6, for the purposes of the Registry:
4 "Adopted person" means a person who was adopted pursuant to
5the laws in effect at the time of the adoption.
6 "Adoptive parent" means a person who has become a parent
7through the legal process of adoption.
8 "Adult child" means the biological child 21 years of age or
9over of a deceased adopted or surrendered person.
10 "Adult Adopted or Surrendered Person" means an adopted or
11surrendered person 21 years of age or over.
12 "Agency" means a public child welfare agency or a licensed
13child welfare agency.
14 "Birth aunt" means the adult full or half sister of a
15deceased birth parent.
16 "Birth father" means the biological father of an adopted or
17surrendered person who is named on the original certificate of
18live birth or on a consent or surrender document, or a
19biological father whose paternity has been established by a
20judgment or order of the court, pursuant to the Illinois
21Parentage Act of 1984 or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
22 "Birth mother" means the biological mother of an adopted or
23surrendered person.
24 "Birth parent" means a birth mother or birth father of an
25adopted or surrendered person.
26 "Birth Parent Preference Form" means the form prepared by

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1the Department of Public Health pursuant to Section 18.2
2completed by a birth parent registrant and filed with the
3Registry that indicates the birth parent's preferences
4regarding contact and, if applicable, the release of his or her
5identifying information on the non-certified copy of the
6original birth certificate released to an adult adopted or
7surrendered person or to the surviving adult child or surviving
8spouse of a deceased adopted or surrendered person who has
9filed a Request for a Non-Certified Copy of an Original Birth
10Certificate.
11 "Birth relative" means a birth mother, birth father, birth
12sibling, birth aunt, or birth uncle.
13 "Birth sibling" means the adult full or half sibling of an
14adopted or surrendered person.
15 "Birth uncle" means the adult full or half brother of a
16deceased birth parent.
17 "Confidential intermediary" means an individual certified
18by the Department of Children and Family Services pursuant to
19Section 18.3a(e).
20 "Denial of Information Exchange" means an affidavit
21completed by a registrant with the Illinois Adoption Registry
22and Medical Information Exchange denying the release of
23identifying information which has been filed with the Registry.
24 "Information Exchange Authorization" means an affidavit
25completed by a registrant with the Illinois Adoption Registry
26and Medical Information Exchange authorizing the release of

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1identifying information which has been filed with the Registry.
2 "Medical Information Exchange Questionnaire" means the
3medical history questionnaire completed by a registrant of the
4Illinois Adoption Registry and Medical Information Exchange.
5 "Non-certified Copy of the Original Birth Certificate"
6means a non-certified copy of the original certificate of live
7birth of an adult adopted or surrendered person who was born in
8Illinois.
9 "Proof of death" means a death certificate.
10 "Registrant" or "Registered Party" means a birth parent,
11birth sibling, birth aunt, birth uncle, adopted or surrendered
12person 21 years of age or over, adoptive parent or legal
13guardian of an adopted or surrendered person under the age of
1421, or adoptive parent, surviving spouse, or adult child of a
15deceased adopted or surrendered person who has filed an
16Illinois Adoption Registry Application or Registration
17Identification Form with the Registry.
18 "Registry" means the Illinois Adoption Registry and
19Medical Information Exchange.
20 "Request for a Non-Certified Copy of an Original Birth
21Certificate" means an affidavit completed by an adult adopted
22or surrendered person or by the surviving adult child or
23surviving spouse of a deceased adopted or surrendered person
24and filed with the Registry requesting a non-certified copy of
25an adult adopted or surrendered person's original certificate
26of live birth in Illinois.

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1 "Surrendered person" means a person whose parents' rights
2have been surrendered or terminated but who has not been
3adopted.
4 "Surviving spouse" means the wife or husband, 21 years of
5age or older, of a deceased adopted or surrendered person who
6would be 21 years of age or older if still alive and who has one
7or more surviving biological children who are under the age of
821.
9 "18.3 Statement" means a statement regarding the
10disclosure of identifying information signed by a birth parent
11under Section 18.3 of this Act as it existed immediately prior
12to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th
13General Assembly.
14(Source: P.A. 96-895, eff. 5-21-10; 97-110, eff. 7-14-11.)
15 Section 973. The Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 is
16amended by changing Sections 202 and 214 as follows:
17 (750 ILCS 60/202) (from Ch. 40, par. 2312-2)
18 Sec. 202. Commencement of action; filing fees; dismissal.
19 (a) How to commence action. Actions for orders of
20protection are commenced:
21 (1) Independently: By filing a petition for an order of
22 protection in any civil court, unless specific courts are
23 designated by local rule or order.
24 (2) In conjunction with another civil proceeding: By

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1 filing a petition for an order of protection under the same
2 case number as another civil proceeding involving the
3 parties, including but not limited to: (i) any proceeding
4 under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
5 Act, Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984, Nonsupport of
6 Spouse and Children Act, Revised Uniform Reciprocal
7 Enforcement of Support Act or an action for nonsupport
8 brought under Article 10 of the Illinois Public Aid Code,
9 provided that a petitioner and the respondent are a party
10 to or the subject of that proceeding or (ii) a guardianship
11 proceeding under the Probate Act of 1975, or a proceeding
12 for involuntary commitment under the Mental Health and
13 Developmental Disabilities Code, or any proceeding, other
14 than a delinquency petition, under the Juvenile Court Act
15 of 1987, provided that a petitioner or the respondent is a
16 party to or the subject of such proceeding.
17 (3) In conjunction with a delinquency petition or a
18 criminal prosecution: By filing a petition for an order of
19 protection, under the same case number as the delinquency
20 petition or criminal prosecution, to be granted during
21 pre-trial release of a defendant, with any dispositional
22 order issued under Section 5-710 of the Juvenile Court Act
23 of 1987 or as a condition of release, supervision,
24 conditional discharge, probation, periodic imprisonment,
25 parole, aftercare release, or mandatory supervised
26 release, or in conjunction with imprisonment or a bond

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1 forfeiture warrant; provided that:
2 (i) the violation is alleged in an information,
3 complaint, indictment or delinquency petition on file,
4 and the alleged offender and victim are family or
5 household members or persons protected by this Act; and
6 (ii) the petition, which is filed by the State's
7 Attorney, names a victim of the alleged crime as a
8 petitioner.
9 (b) Filing, certification, and service fees. No fee shall
10be charged by the clerk for filing, amending, vacating,
11certifying, or photocopying petitions or orders; or for issuing
12alias summons; or for any related filing service. No fee shall
13be charged by the sheriff for service by the sheriff of a
14petition, rule, motion, or order in an action commenced under
15this Section.
16 (c) Dismissal and consolidation. Withdrawal or dismissal
17of any petition for an order of protection prior to
18adjudication where the petitioner is represented by the State
19shall operate as a dismissal without prejudice. No action for
20an order of protection shall be dismissed because the
21respondent is being prosecuted for a crime against the
22petitioner. An independent action may be consolidated with
23another civil proceeding, as provided by paragraph (2) of
24subsection (a) of this Section. For any action commenced under
25paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection (a) of this Section,
26dismissal of the conjoined case (or a finding of not guilty)

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1shall not require dismissal of the action for the order of
2protection; instead, it may be treated as an independent action
3and, if necessary and appropriate, transferred to a different
4court or division. Dismissal of any conjoined case shall not
5affect the validity of any previously issued order of
6protection, and thereafter subsections (b)(1) and (b)(2) of
7Section 220 shall be inapplicable to such order.
8 (d) Pro se petitions. The court shall provide, through the
9office of the clerk of the court, simplified forms and clerical
10assistance to help with the writing and filing of a petition
11under this Section by any person not represented by counsel. In
12addition, that assistance may be provided by the state's
13attorney.
14(Source: P.A. 98-558, eff. 1-1-14.)
15 (750 ILCS 60/214) (from Ch. 40, par. 2312-14)
16 Sec. 214. Order of protection; remedies.
17 (a) Issuance of order. If the court finds that petitioner
18has been abused by a family or household member or that
19petitioner is a high-risk adult who has been abused, neglected,
20or exploited, as defined in this Act, an order of protection
21prohibiting the abuse, neglect, or exploitation shall issue;
22provided that petitioner must also satisfy the requirements of
23one of the following Sections, as appropriate: Section 217 on
24emergency orders, Section 218 on interim orders, or Section 219
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1protection because petitioner or respondent is a minor. The
2court, when determining whether or not to issue an order of
3protection, shall not require physical manifestations of abuse
4on the person of the victim. Modification and extension of
5prior orders of protection shall be in accordance with this
6Act.
7 (b) Remedies and standards. The remedies to be included in
8an order of protection shall be determined in accordance with
9this Section and one of the following Sections, as appropriate:
10Section 217 on emergency orders, Section 218 on interim orders,
11and Section 219 on plenary orders. The remedies listed in this
12subsection shall be in addition to other civil or criminal
13remedies available to petitioner.
14 (1) Prohibition of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
15 Prohibit respondent's harassment, interference with
16 personal liberty, intimidation of a dependent, physical
17 abuse, or willful deprivation, neglect or exploitation, as
18 defined in this Act, or stalking of the petitioner, as
19 defined in Section 12-7.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, if
20 such abuse, neglect, exploitation, or stalking has
21 occurred or otherwise appears likely to occur if not
22 prohibited.
23 (2) Grant of exclusive possession of residence.
24 Prohibit respondent from entering or remaining in any
25 residence, household, or premises of the petitioner,
26 including one owned or leased by respondent, if petitioner

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1 has a right to occupancy thereof. The grant of exclusive
2 possession of the residence, household, or premises shall
3 not affect title to real property, nor shall the court be
4 limited by the standard set forth in Section 701 of the
5 Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
6 (A) Right to occupancy. A party has a right to
7 occupancy of a residence or household if it is solely
8 or jointly owned or leased by that party, that party's
9 spouse, a person with a legal duty to support that
10 party or a minor child in that party's care, or by any
11 person or entity other than the opposing party that
12 authorizes that party's occupancy (e.g., a domestic
13 violence shelter). Standards set forth in subparagraph
14 (B) shall not preclude equitable relief.
15 (B) Presumption of hardships. If petitioner and
16 respondent each has the right to occupancy of a
17 residence or household, the court shall balance (i) the
18 hardships to respondent and any minor child or
19 dependent adult in respondent's care resulting from
20 entry of this remedy with (ii) the hardships to
21 petitioner and any minor child or dependent adult in
22 petitioner's care resulting from continued exposure to
23 the risk of abuse (should petitioner remain at the
24 residence or household) or from loss of possession of
25 the residence or household (should petitioner leave to
26 avoid the risk of abuse). When determining the balance

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1 of hardships, the court shall also take into account
2 the accessibility of the residence or household.
3 Hardships need not be balanced if respondent does not
4 have a right to occupancy.
5 The balance of hardships is presumed to favor
6 possession by petitioner unless the presumption is
7 rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence, showing
8 that the hardships to respondent substantially
9 outweigh the hardships to petitioner and any minor
10 child or dependent adult in petitioner's care. The
11 court, on the request of petitioner or on its own
12 motion, may order respondent to provide suitable,
13 accessible, alternate housing for petitioner instead
14 of excluding respondent from a mutual residence or
15 household.
16 (3) Stay away order and additional prohibitions. Order
17 respondent to stay away from petitioner or any other person
18 protected by the order of protection, or prohibit
19 respondent from entering or remaining present at
20 petitioner's school, place of employment, or other
21 specified places at times when petitioner is present, or
22 both, if reasonable, given the balance of hardships.
23 Hardships need not be balanced for the court to enter a
24 stay away order or prohibit entry if respondent has no
25 right to enter the premises.
26 (A) If an order of protection grants petitioner

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1 exclusive possession of the residence, or prohibits
2 respondent from entering the residence, or orders
3 respondent to stay away from petitioner or other
4 protected persons, then the court may allow respondent
5 access to the residence to remove items of clothing and
6 personal adornment used exclusively by respondent,
7 medications, and other items as the court directs. The
8 right to access shall be exercised on only one occasion
9 as the court directs and in the presence of an
10 agreed-upon adult third party or law enforcement
11 officer.
12 (B) When the petitioner and the respondent attend
13 the same public, private, or non-public elementary,
14 middle, or high school, the court when issuing an order
15 of protection and providing relief shall consider the
16 severity of the act, any continuing physical danger or
17 emotional distress to the petitioner, the educational
18 rights guaranteed to the petitioner and respondent
19 under federal and State law, the availability of a
20 transfer of the respondent to another school, a change
21 of placement or a change of program of the respondent,
22 the expense, difficulty, and educational disruption
23 that would be caused by a transfer of the respondent to
24 another school, and any other relevant facts of the
25 case. The court may order that the respondent not
26 attend the public, private, or non-public elementary,

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1 middle, or high school attended by the petitioner,
2 order that the respondent accept a change of placement
3 or change of program, as determined by the school
4 district or private or non-public school, or place
5 restrictions on the respondent's movements within the
6 school attended by the petitioner. The respondent
7 bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the
8 evidence that a transfer, change of placement, or
9 change of program of the respondent is not available.
10 The respondent also bears the burden of production with
11 respect to the expense, difficulty, and educational
12 disruption that would be caused by a transfer of the
13 respondent to another school. A transfer, change of
14 placement, or change of program is not unavailable to
15 the respondent solely on the ground that the respondent
16 does not agree with the school district's or private or
17 non-public school's transfer, change of placement, or
18 change of program or solely on the ground that the
19 respondent fails or refuses to consent or otherwise
20 does not take an action required to effectuate a
21 transfer, change of placement, or change of program.
22 When a court orders a respondent to stay away from the
23 public, private, or non-public school attended by the
24 petitioner and the respondent requests a transfer to
25 another attendance center within the respondent's
26 school district or private or non-public school, the

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1 school district or private or non-public school shall
2 have sole discretion to determine the attendance
3 center to which the respondent is transferred. In the
4 event the court order results in a transfer of the
5 minor respondent to another attendance center, a
6 change in the respondent's placement, or a change of
7 the respondent's program, the parents, guardian, or
8 legal custodian of the respondent is responsible for
9 transportation and other costs associated with the
10 transfer or change.
11 (C) The court may order the parents, guardian, or
12 legal custodian of a minor respondent to take certain
13 actions or to refrain from taking certain actions to
14 ensure that the respondent complies with the order. In
15 the event the court orders a transfer of the respondent
16 to another school, the parents, guardian, or legal
17 custodian of the respondent is responsible for
18 transportation and other costs associated with the
19 change of school by the respondent.
20 (4) Counseling. Require or recommend the respondent to
21 undergo counseling for a specified duration with a social
22 worker, psychologist, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist,
23 family service agency, alcohol or substance abuse program,
24 mental health center guidance counselor, agency providing
25 services to elders, program designed for domestic violence
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1 appropriate. The Court may order the respondent in any
2 intimate partner relationship to report to an Illinois
3 Department of Human Services protocol approved partner
4 abuse intervention program for an assessment and to follow
5 all recommended treatment.
6 (5) Physical care and possession of the minor child. In
7 order to protect the minor child from abuse, neglect, or
8 unwarranted separation from the person who has been the
9 minor child's primary caretaker, or to otherwise protect
10 the well-being of the minor child, the court may do either
11 or both of the following: (i) grant petitioner physical
12 care or possession of the minor child, or both, or (ii)
13 order respondent to return a minor child to, or not remove
14 a minor child from, the physical care of a parent or person
15 in loco parentis.
16 If a court finds, after a hearing, that respondent has
17 committed abuse (as defined in Section 103) of a minor
18 child, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that
19 awarding physical care to respondent would not be in the
20 minor child's best interest.
21 (6) Temporary legal custody. Award temporary legal
22 custody to petitioner in accordance with this Section, the
23 Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the
24 Illinois Parentage Act of 2014 1984, and this State's
25 Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.
26 If a court finds, after a hearing, that respondent has

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1 committed abuse (as defined in Section 103) of a minor
2 child, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that
3 awarding temporary legal custody to respondent would not be
4 in the child's best interest.
5 (7) Visitation. Determine the visitation rights, if
6 any, of respondent in any case in which the court awards
7 physical care or temporary legal custody of a minor child
8 to petitioner. The court shall restrict or deny
9 respondent's visitation with a minor child if the court
10 finds that respondent has done or is likely to do any of
11 the following: (i) abuse or endanger the minor child during
12 visitation; (ii) use the visitation as an opportunity to
13 abuse or harass petitioner or petitioner's family or
14 household members; (iii) improperly conceal or detain the
15 minor child; or (iv) otherwise act in a manner that is not
16 in the best interests of the minor child. The court shall
17 not be limited by the standards set forth in Section 607.1
18 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
19 If the court grants visitation, the order shall specify
20 dates and times for the visitation to take place or other
21 specific parameters or conditions that are appropriate. No
22 order for visitation shall refer merely to the term
23 "reasonable visitation".
24 Petitioner may deny respondent access to the minor
25 child if, when respondent arrives for visitation,
26 respondent is under the influence of drugs or alcohol and

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1 constitutes a threat to the safety and well-being of
2 petitioner or petitioner's minor children or is behaving in
3 a violent or abusive manner.
4 If necessary to protect any member of petitioner's
5 family or household from future abuse, respondent shall be
6 prohibited from coming to petitioner's residence to meet
7 the minor child for visitation, and the parties shall
8 submit to the court their recommendations for reasonable
9 alternative arrangements for visitation. A person may be
10 approved to supervise visitation only after filing an
11 affidavit accepting that responsibility and acknowledging
12 accountability to the court.
13 (8) Removal or concealment of minor child. Prohibit
14 respondent from removing a minor child from the State or
15 concealing the child within the State.
16 (9) Order to appear. Order the respondent to appear in
17 court, alone or with a minor child, to prevent abuse,
18 neglect, removal or concealment of the child, to return the
19 child to the custody or care of the petitioner or to permit
20 any court-ordered interview or examination of the child or
21 the respondent.
22 (10) Possession of personal property. Grant petitioner
23 exclusive possession of personal property and, if
24 respondent has possession or control, direct respondent to
25 promptly make it available to petitioner, if:
26 (i) petitioner, but not respondent, owns the

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1 property; or
2 (ii) the parties own the property jointly; sharing
3 it would risk abuse of petitioner by respondent or is
4 impracticable; and the balance of hardships favors
5 temporary possession by petitioner.
6 If petitioner's sole claim to ownership of the property
7 is that it is marital property, the court may award
8 petitioner temporary possession thereof under the
9 standards of subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph only if a
10 proper proceeding has been filed under the Illinois
11 Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, as now or
12 hereafter amended.
13 No order under this provision shall affect title to
14 property.
15 (11) Protection of property. Forbid the respondent
16 from taking, transferring, encumbering, concealing,
17 damaging or otherwise disposing of any real or personal
18 property, except as explicitly authorized by the court, if:
19 (i) petitioner, but not respondent, owns the
20 property; or
21 (ii) the parties own the property jointly, and the
22 balance of hardships favors granting this remedy.
23 If petitioner's sole claim to ownership of the property
24 is that it is marital property, the court may grant
25 petitioner relief under subparagraph (ii) of this
26 paragraph only if a proper proceeding has been filed under

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1 the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, as
2 now or hereafter amended.
3 The court may further prohibit respondent from
4 improperly using the financial or other resources of an
5 aged member of the family or household for the profit or
6 advantage of respondent or of any other person.
7 (11.5) Protection of animals. Grant the petitioner the
8 exclusive care, custody, or control of any animal owned,
9 possessed, leased, kept, or held by either the petitioner
10 or the respondent or a minor child residing in the
11 residence or household of either the petitioner or the
12 respondent and order the respondent to stay away from the
13 animal and forbid the respondent from taking,
14 transferring, encumbering, concealing, harming, or
15 otherwise disposing of the animal.
16 (12) Order for payment of support. Order respondent to
17 pay temporary support for the petitioner or any child in
18 the petitioner's care or custody, when the respondent has a
19 legal obligation to support that person, in accordance with
20 the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act,
21 which shall govern, among other matters, the amount of
22 support, payment through the clerk and withholding of
23 income to secure payment. An order for child support may be
24 granted to a petitioner with lawful physical care or
25 custody of a child, or an order or agreement for physical
26 care or custody, prior to entry of an order for legal

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1 custody. Such a support order shall expire upon entry of a
2 valid order granting legal custody to another, unless
3 otherwise provided in the custody order.
4 (13) Order for payment of losses. Order respondent to
5 pay petitioner for losses suffered as a direct result of
6 the abuse, neglect, or exploitation. Such losses shall
7 include, but not be limited to, medical expenses, lost
8 earnings or other support, repair or replacement of
9 property damaged or taken, reasonable attorney's fees,
10 court costs and moving or other travel expenses, including
11 additional reasonable expenses for temporary shelter and
12 restaurant meals.
13 (i) Losses affecting family needs. If a party is
14 entitled to seek maintenance, child support or
15 property distribution from the other party under the
16 Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, as
17 now or hereafter amended, the court may order
18 respondent to reimburse petitioner's actual losses, to
19 the extent that such reimbursement would be
20 "appropriate temporary relief", as authorized by
21 subsection (a)(3) of Section 501 of that Act.
22 (ii) Recovery of expenses. In the case of an
23 improper concealment or removal of a minor child, the
24 court may order respondent to pay the reasonable
25 expenses incurred or to be incurred in the search for
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1 limited to legal fees, court costs, private
2 investigator fees, and travel costs.
3 (14) Prohibition of entry. Prohibit the respondent
4 from entering or remaining in the residence or household
5 while the respondent is under the influence of alcohol or
6 drugs and constitutes a threat to the safety and well-being
7 of the petitioner or the petitioner's children.
8 (14.5) Prohibition of firearm possession.
9 (a) Prohibit a respondent against whom an order of
10 protection was issued from possessing any firearms
11 during the duration of the order if the order:
12 (1) was issued after a hearing of which such
13 person received actual notice, and at which such
14 person had an opportunity to participate;
15 (2) restrains such person from harassing,
16 stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of
17 such person or child of such intimate partner or
18 person, or engaging in other conduct that would
19 place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of
20 bodily injury to the partner or child; and
21 (3)(i) includes a finding that such person
22 represents a credible threat to the physical
23 safety of such intimate partner or child; or (ii)
24 by its terms explicitly prohibits the use,
25 attempted use, or threatened use of physical force
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1 reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury.
2 Any Firearm Owner's Identification Card in the
3 possession of the respondent, except as provided in
4 subsection (b), shall be ordered by the court to be
5 turned over to the local law enforcement agency. The
6 local law enforcement agency shall immediately mail
7 the card to the Department of State Police Firearm
8 Owner's Identification Card Office for safekeeping.
9 The court shall issue a warrant for seizure of any
10 firearm in the possession of the respondent, to be kept
11 by the local law enforcement agency for safekeeping,
12 except as provided in subsection (b). The period of
13 safekeeping shall be for the duration of the order of
14 protection. The firearm or firearms and Firearm
15 Owner's Identification Card, if unexpired, shall at
16 the respondent's request, be returned to the
17 respondent at the end of the order of protection. It is
18 the respondent's responsibility to notify the
19 Department of State Police Firearm Owner's
20 Identification Card Office.
21 (b) If the respondent is a peace officer as defined
22 in Section 2-13 of the Criminal Code of 2012, the court
23 shall order that any firearms used by the respondent in
24 the performance of his or her duties as a peace officer
25 be surrendered to the chief law enforcement executive
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1 shall retain the firearms for safekeeping for the
2 duration of the order of protection.
3 (c) Upon expiration of the period of safekeeping,
4 if the firearms or Firearm Owner's Identification Card
5 cannot be returned to respondent because respondent
6 cannot be located, fails to respond to requests to
7 retrieve the firearms, or is not lawfully eligible to
8 possess a firearm, upon petition from the local law
9 enforcement agency, the court may order the local law
10 enforcement agency to destroy the firearms, use the
11 firearms for training purposes, or for any other
12 application as deemed appropriate by the local law
13 enforcement agency; or that the firearms be turned over
14 to a third party who is lawfully eligible to possess
15 firearms, and who does not reside with respondent.
16 (15) Prohibition of access to records. If an order of
17 protection prohibits respondent from having contact with
18 the minor child, or if petitioner's address is omitted
19 under subsection (b) of Section 203, or if necessary to
20 prevent abuse or wrongful removal or concealment of a minor
21 child, the order shall deny respondent access to, and
22 prohibit respondent from inspecting, obtaining, or
23 attempting to inspect or obtain, school or any other
24 records of the minor child who is in the care of
25 petitioner.
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1 respondent to reimburse a shelter providing temporary
2 housing and counseling services to the petitioner for the
3 cost of the services, as certified by the shelter and
4 deemed reasonable by the court.
5 (17) Order for injunctive relief. Enter injunctive
6 relief necessary or appropriate to prevent further abuse of
7 a family or household member or further abuse, neglect, or
8 exploitation of a high-risk adult with disabilities or to
9 effectuate one of the granted remedies, if supported by the
10 balance of hardships. If the harm to be prevented by the
11 injunction is abuse or any other harm that one of the
12 remedies listed in paragraphs (1) through (16) of this
13 subsection is designed to prevent, no further evidence is
14 necessary that the harm is an irreparable injury.
15 (c) Relevant factors; findings.
16 (1) In determining whether to grant a specific remedy,
17 other than payment of support, the court shall consider
18 relevant factors, including but not limited to the
19 following:
20 (i) the nature, frequency, severity, pattern and
21 consequences of the respondent's past abuse, neglect
22 or exploitation of the petitioner or any family or
23 household member, including the concealment of his or
24 her location in order to evade service of process or
25 notice, and the likelihood of danger of future abuse,
26 neglect, or exploitation to petitioner or any member of

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1 petitioner's or respondent's family or household; and
2 (ii) the danger that any minor child will be abused
3 or neglected or improperly removed from the
4 jurisdiction, improperly concealed within the State or
5 improperly separated from the child's primary
6 caretaker.
7 (2) In comparing relative hardships resulting to the
8 parties from loss of possession of the family home, the
9 court shall consider relevant factors, including but not
10 limited to the following:
11 (i) availability, accessibility, cost, safety,
12 adequacy, location and other characteristics of
13 alternate housing for each party and any minor child or
14 dependent adult in the party's care;
15 (ii) the effect on the party's employment; and
16 (iii) the effect on the relationship of the party,
17 and any minor child or dependent adult in the party's
18 care, to family, school, church and community.
19 (3) Subject to the exceptions set forth in paragraph
20 (4) of this subsection, the court shall make its findings
21 in an official record or in writing, and shall at a minimum
22 set forth the following:
23 (i) That the court has considered the applicable
24 relevant factors described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of
25 this subsection.
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1 unless prohibited, will likely cause irreparable harm
2 or continued abuse.
3 (iii) Whether it is necessary to grant the
4 requested relief in order to protect petitioner or
5 other alleged abused persons.
6 (4) For purposes of issuing an ex parte emergency order
7 of protection, the court, as an alternative to or as a
8 supplement to making the findings described in paragraphs
9 (c)(3)(i) through (c)(3)(iii) of this subsection, may use
10 the following procedure:
11 When a verified petition for an emergency order of
12 protection in accordance with the requirements of Sections
13 203 and 217 is presented to the court, the court shall
14 examine petitioner on oath or affirmation. An emergency
15 order of protection shall be issued by the court if it
16 appears from the contents of the petition and the
17 examination of petitioner that the averments are
18 sufficient to indicate abuse by respondent and to support
19 the granting of relief under the issuance of the emergency
20 order of protection.
21 (5) Never married parties. No rights or
22 responsibilities for a minor child born outside of marriage
23 attach to a putative father until a father and child
24 relationship has been established under the Illinois
25 Parentage Act of 1984, the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014,
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1 Records Act, the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, the Probate
2 Act of 1985, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of
3 Support Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the
4 Expedited Child Support Act of 1990, any judicial,
5 administrative, or other act of another state or territory,
6 any other Illinois statute, or by any foreign nation
7 establishing the father and child relationship, any other
8 proceeding substantially in conformity with the Personal
9 Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of
10 1996 (Pub. L. 104-193), or where both parties appeared in
11 open court or at an administrative hearing acknowledging
12 under oath or admitting by affirmation the existence of a
13 father and child relationship. Absent such an
14 adjudication, finding, or acknowledgement, no putative
15 father shall be granted temporary custody of the minor
16 child, visitation with the minor child, or physical care
17 and possession of the minor child, nor shall an order of
18 payment for support of the minor child be entered.
19 (d) Balance of hardships; findings. If the court finds that
20the balance of hardships does not support the granting of a
21remedy governed by paragraph (2), (3), (10), (11), or (16) of
22subsection (b) of this Section, which may require such
23balancing, the court's findings shall so indicate and shall
24include a finding as to whether granting the remedy will result
25in hardship to respondent that would substantially outweigh the
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1shall be an official record or in writing.
2 (e) Denial of remedies. Denial of any remedy shall not be
3based, in whole or in part, on evidence that:
4 (1) Respondent has cause for any use of force, unless
5 that cause satisfies the standards for justifiable use of
6 force provided by Article 7 of the Criminal Code of 2012;
7 (2) Respondent was voluntarily intoxicated;
8 (3) Petitioner acted in self-defense or defense of
9 another, provided that, if petitioner utilized force, such
10 force was justifiable under Article 7 of the Criminal Code
11 of 2012;
12 (4) Petitioner did not act in self-defense or defense
13 of another;
14 (5) Petitioner left the residence or household to avoid
15 further abuse, neglect, or exploitation by respondent;
16 (6) Petitioner did not leave the residence or household
17 to avoid further abuse, neglect, or exploitation by
18 respondent;
19 (7) Conduct by any family or household member excused
20 the abuse, neglect, or exploitation by respondent, unless
21 that same conduct would have excused such abuse, neglect,
22 or exploitation if the parties had not been family or
23 household members.
24(Source: P.A. 96-701, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1239, eff. 1-1-11;
2597-158, eff. 1-1-12; 97-294, eff. 1-1-12; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12;
2697-1131, eff. 1-1-13; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)

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1 Section 974. The Business Corporation Act of 1983 is
2amended by changing Section 1.25 as follows:
3 (805 ILCS 5/1.25) (from Ch. 32, par. 1.25)
4 Sec. 1.25. List of corporations; exchange of information.
5 (a) The Secretary of State shall publish each year a list
6of corporations filing an annual report for the preceding year
7in accordance with the provisions of this Act, which report
8shall state the name of the corporation and the respective
9names and addresses of the president, secretary, and registered
10agent thereof and the address of the registered office in this
11State of each such corporation. The Secretary of State shall
12furnish without charge a copy of such report to each recorder
13of this State, and to each member of the General Assembly and
14to each State agency or department requesting the same. The
15Secretary of State shall, upon receipt of a written request and
16a fee as determined by the Secretary, furnish such report to
17anyone else.
18 (b) (1) The Secretary of State shall publish daily a list
19of all newly formed corporations, business and not for profit,
20chartered by him on that day issued after receipt of the
21application. The daily list shall contain the same information
22as to each corporation as is provided for the corporation list
23published under subsection (a) of this Section. The daily list
24may be obtained at the Secretary's office by any person,

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1newspaper, State department or agency, or local government for
2a reasonable charge to be determined by the Secretary.
3Inspection of the daily list may be made at the Secretary's
4office during normal business hours without charge by any
5person, newspaper, State department or agency, or local
6government.
7 (2) The Secretary shall compile the daily list mentioned in
8paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of this Section monthly, or
9more often at the Secretary's discretion. The compilation shall
10be immediately mailed free of charge to all local governments
11requesting in writing receipt of such publication, or shall be
12automatically mailed by the Secretary without charge to local
13governments as determined by the Secretary. The Secretary shall
14mail a copy of the compilations free of charge to all State
15departments or agencies making a written request. A request for
16a compilation of the daily list once made by a local government
17or State department or agency need not be renewed. However, the
18Secretary may request from time to time whether the local
19governments or State departments or agencies desire to continue
20receiving the compilation.
21 (3) The compilations of the daily list mentioned in
22paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of this Section shall be mailed
23to newspapers, or any other person not included as a recipient
24in paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of this Section, upon
25receipt of a written application signed by the applicant and
26accompanied by the payment of a fee as determined by the

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1Secretary.
2 (c) If a domestic or foreign corporation has filed with the
3Secretary of State an annual report for the preceding year or
4has been newly formed or is otherwise and in any manner
5registered with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State
6shall exchange with the Department of Healthcare and Family
7Services any information concerning that corporation that may
8be necessary for the enforcement of child support orders
9entered pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois
10Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
11Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the
12Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the
13Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or the Illinois
14Parentage Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
15 Notwithstanding any provisions in this Act to the contrary,
16the Secretary of State shall not be liable to any person for
17any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare
18and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public
19Aid) under this subsection or for any other action taken in
20good faith to comply with the requirements of this subsection.
21(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
22 Section 975. The Limited Liability Company Act is amended
23by changing Section 50-5 as follows:
24 (805 ILCS 180/50-5)

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1 Sec. 50-5. List of limited liability companies; exchange of
2information.
3 (a) The Secretary of State may publish a list or lists of
4limited liability companies and foreign limited liability
5companies, as often, in the format, and for the fees as the
6Secretary of State may in his or her discretion provide by
7rule. The Secretary of State may disseminate information
8concerning limited liability companies and foreign limited
9liability companies by computer network in the format and for
10the fees as may be determined by rule.
11 (b) Upon written request, any list published under
12subsection (a) shall be free to each member of the General
13Assembly, to each State agency or department, and to each
14recorder in this State. An appropriate fee established by rule
15to cover the cost of producing the list shall be charged to all
16others.
17 (c) If a domestic or foreign limited liability company has
18filed with the Secretary of State an annual report for the
19preceding year or has been newly formed or is otherwise and in
20any manner registered with the Secretary of State, the
21Secretary of State shall exchange with the Department of
22Healthcare and Family Services any information concerning that
23limited liability company that may be necessary for the
24enforcement of child support orders entered pursuant to the
25Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution
26of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act,

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1the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal
2Enforcement of Support Act, the Uniform Interstate Family
3Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, or the
4Illinois Parentage Act of 2014.
5 Notwithstanding any provisions in this Act to the contrary,
6the Secretary of State shall not be liable to any person for
7any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare
8and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public
9Aid) under this subsection or for any other action taken in
10good faith to comply with the requirements of this subsection.
11(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
12 (750 ILCS 40/Act rep.)
13 Section 976. The Illinois Parentage Act is repealed.
14 (750 ILCS 45/Act rep.)
15 Section 977. The Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 is
16repealed.".