Illinois Adoption Court Cases

Indiana Court Case: Murphy v. Vanderver
The adoption petition, filed on January 13, 1975, alleged that the consent of the natural father was not required because he had abandoned and deserted the child for a period in excess of six months preceding the filing of the petition by pleading guilty to the crime of rape and serving the sentence thereon. After hearing evidence and taking the matter under advisement, the court denied the petition. The Murphys bring this appeal contending that the court's judgment is contrary to law...


Illinois Court Case: Procopio v. Johnson
The plaintiffs, hoping to adopt a child, became foster parents to a little girl born to an active drug addict. They nursed her through chronic narcotic withdrawal and cared for her for five years. When the birth parents successfully sought to have custody of the girl returned to them, the plaintiffs sued, asserting a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in addition to state law claims...


Illinois Court Case: Hopkins v. Gifford
The principal question involved in this case is the validity of the orders of adoption of the appellees by appellant and her deceased husband. The appellee Van Fritzgerald was on petition of appellant and her husband, Cyril G. Hopkins, decreed by the county court of Champaign county to be their adopted child on the 10th of October, 1908. Appellee William Scott Gifford was by decree...


Illinois Court Case: Keal v. Rhydderck
The defendant in error, Thomas John Rhydderck, (now known as Thomas Ervin Keal,) was born October 27, 1909. In February, 1910, his mother was adjudged insane and committed to the Kankakee State Hospital, and Thomas was placed by his father in the care of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society. In August, 1910, the society delivered...


Illinois Court Case: Cooper v. Hinrichs
This cause is heard on petition for leave to appeal filed by plaintiffs, Dwayne Cooper and Iva Cooper, from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming the county court's denial of their petition for adoption of the twin daughters of defendant, Joan Hinrichs. The primary inquiry presented on this appeal is whether...


Illinois Court Case: Regenold
Linda Fay Regenold filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit court of McLean County alleging that she was being unlawfully deprived of the custody of her infant son by the Baby Fold, Inc. Linda had executed a surrender document on October 22, 1975, pursuant to section 10 of the Adoption Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 4, par. 9.1 -- 10) and had physically surrendered...


Illinois Court Case: Lingwall v. Hoener
This opinion involves three cases that have been consolidated for the purpose of this appeal. In cause No. 60458, petitioner June Bullington Lingwall, the natural paternal grandmother of Michelle Hoener, filed a petition in the circuit court of Pike County pursuant to section 607(b) of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act...


Illinois Court Case: In re Peterson
On July 2, 1984, the circuit court of Cook County dismissed a petition for modification of custody brought by Raymond and Patricia Jadrych, the maternal grandparents of Lynette Peterson. The court ordered that custody of Lynette be turned over to James Peterson, the respondent and the natural father of Lynette. The appellate court reversed...


Illinois Court Case: In re M.M.
Preliminarily, we must dispose of appellants' motion to strike portions of appellee Morgan's brief. In their motion, appellants point out that, in his brief, Morgan cites to a decision rendered by the chancery division of the circuit court in Jennifer H. v. McDonald (Cir. Ct. Cook Co.), No. 86-J-4176, as well as pleadings filed in the Federal district court in that case...


Illinois Court Case: Bowdry v. Bowdry
Relator appeals from an order entered November 26, 1943 dismissing her petition for a writ of habeas corpus to determine the custody of her child, Doloris Ann Bowdry, about five years of age, then in the custody of the respondents, Gracey S. Pollard and Mary Pollard, his wife, under a decree of adoption entered in the county court of Cook county July 22, 1942...


Illinois Court Case: In re Adoption of Walpole
This cause comes to this court on appeal from the county court of Macon county. Clyde Songer, the stepfather, and Margaret Songer, the mother of Lynda Lou Walpole, a minor child, brought their petition to adopt Lynda Lou against Jesse Walpole, the father. The minor child and the mother, Margaret Songer, were named defendants to comply with the statutes...


Illinois Court Case: Thorpe v. Thorpe
This is an appeal from a decision of the County Court of Sangamon County wherein a petition for adoption was denied. The child sought to be adopted, Mickey Rae Thorpe, was returned to her natural mother, Barbara Loraine Thorpe, also known as Barbara Loraine Wild. In the petition for adoption filed on July 24, 1962, it is alleged that the petitioners...

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