Chapter 750, FAMILIES

(750 ILCS 50/6) (from Ch. 40, par. 1508) Sec. 6. A. Investigation; all cases. Within 10 days after the filing of a petition for the adoption or standby adoption of a child other than a related child, the court shall appoint a child welfare agency approved by the Department of Chi…

(750 ILCS 62/60) Sec. 60. Regional review team quorum; meetings; compensation. (a) All members of the regional review team are voting members. Five members of the regional review team shall constitute a quorum. (b) At the first meeting and at subsequent meetings when terms expire…

(750 ILCS 16/60) Sec. 60. Unemployed persons owing duty of support. (a) Whenever it is determined in a proceeding to establish or enforce a child support or maintenance obligation that the person owing a duty of support is unemployed, the court may order the person to seek employ…

(750 ILCS 75/60) Sec. 60. Respect for marriages and civil unions entered into in other jurisdictions. A civil union, or a substantially similar legal relationship other than common law marriage, legally entered into in another jurisdiction, shall be recognized in Illinois as a ci…

(750 ILCS 47/60) Sec. 60. Rulemaking. The Department of Public Health may adopt rules pertaining to the required medical and mental health evaluations for a gestational surrogacy agreement. Until the Department of Public Health adopts such rules, medical and mental health evaluat…

(750 ILCS 90/60) Sec. 60. Waiver and preclusion of privilege. (a) A privilege under Section 55 may be waived in a record or orally during a proceeding if it is expressly waived by all parties and, in the case of the privilege of a nonparty participant, it is also expressly waived…

(750 ILCS 28/60) Sec. 60. Remedies in addition to other laws. (a) The rights, remedies, duties and penalties created by this Act are in addition to and not in substitution for any other rights, remedies, duties and penalties created by any other law. (b) Nothing in this Act shall…

(750 ILCS 5/600) Sec. 600. Definitions. For purposes of this Part VI: (a) "Abuse" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. (b) "Allocation judgment" means a judgment allocating parental responsibilities. (c) "Caretaking f…

(750 ILCS 5/601.2) Sec. 601.2. Jurisdiction; commencement of proceeding. (a) A court of this State that is competent to allocate parental responsibilities has jurisdiction to make such an allocation in original or modification proceedings as provided in Section 201 of the Uniform…

(750 ILCS 5/602.10) Sec. 602.10. Parenting plan. (a) Filing of parenting plan. All parents, within 120 days after service or filing of any petition for allocation of parental responsibilities, must file with the court, either jointly or separately, a proposed parenting plan. The …

(750 ILCS 5/602.11) Sec. 602.11. Access to health care, child care, and school records by parents. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, access to records and information pertaining to a child including, but not limited to, medical, dental, child care, and school record…

(750 ILCS 5/602.3) Sec. 602.3. Care of minor children; right of first refusal. (a) If the court awards parenting time to both parents under Section 602.7 or 602.8, the court may consider, consistent with the best interests of the child as defined in Section 602.7, whether to awar…

(750 ILCS 5/602.5) Sec. 602.5. Allocation of parental responsibilities: decision-making. (a) Generally. The court shall allocate decision-making responsibilities according to the child's best interests. Nothing in this Act requires that each parent be allocated decision-making re…

(750 ILCS 5/602.7) Sec. 602.7. Allocation of parental responsibilities: parenting time. (a) Best interests. The court shall allocate parenting time according to the child's best interests. (b) Allocation of parenting time. Unless the parents present a mutually agreed written pare…

(750 ILCS 5/602.8) Sec. 602.8. Parenting time by parents not allocated significant decision-making responsibilities. (a) A parent who has established parentage under the laws of this State and who is not granted significant decision-making responsibilities for a child is entitled…

(750 ILCS 5/602.9) Sec. 602.9. Visitation by certain non-parents. (a) As used in this Section: (1) "electronic communication" means time that a grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling, or step-parent spends with a child during which the child is not in the person's actual physica…

(750 ILCS 5/603.10) Sec. 603.10. Restriction of parental responsibilities. (a) After a hearing, if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that a parent engaged in any conduct that seriously endangered the child's mental, moral, or physical health or that significantly…

(750 ILCS 5/603.11) Sec. 603.11. Special immigrant child findings. (a) For the purpose of making a finding under this Section: "Abuse" has the meaning ascribed to that term in subsection (1) of Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. "Abandonment" includes, but…

(750 ILCS 5/603.5) Sec. 603.5. Temporary orders. (a) A court may order a temporary allocation of parental responsibilities in the child's best interests before the entry of a final allocation judgment. Any temporary allocation shall be made in accordance with the standards set fo…

(750 ILCS 5/604.10) Sec. 604.10. Interviews; evaluations; investigation. (a) Court's interview of child. The court may interview the child in chambers to ascertain the child's wishes as to the allocation of parental responsibilities. Counsel shall be present at the interview unle…

(750 ILCS 5/606.10) Sec. 606.10. Designation of custodian for purposes of other statutes. Solely for the purposes of all State and federal statutes that require a designation or determination of custody or a custodian, a parenting plan shall designate the parent who is allocated …

(750 ILCS 5/606.5) Sec. 606.5. Hearings. (a) Proceedings to allocate parental responsibilities shall receive priority in being set for hearing. (a-5) The court may tax as costs the payment of necessary travel and other expenses incurred by any person whose presence at the hearing…

(750 ILCS 5/607.5) Sec. 607.5. Abuse of allocated parenting time. (a) The court shall provide an expedited procedure for the enforcement of allocated parenting time. (b) An action for the enforcement of allocated parenting time may be commenced by a parent or a person appointed u…

(750 ILCS 5/607.6) Sec. 607.6. Court-ordered counseling. (a) The court may order individual counseling for the child, family counseling for one or more of the parties and the child, or parental education for one or more of the parties, if it finds one or more of the following: (1…

(750 ILCS 5/609.2) Sec. 609.2. Parent's relocation. (a) A parent's relocation constitutes a substantial change in circumstances for purposes of Section 610.5. (b) A parent who has been allocated a majority of parenting time or either parent who has been allocated equal parenting …

(750 ILCS 5/609.5) Sec. 609.5. Notification of remarriage or residency with a sex offender. A parent who intends to marry or reside with a sex offender, and knows or should know that the person with whom he or she intends to marry or reside is a sex offender, shall provide reason…

(750 ILCS 5/610.5) Sec. 610.5. Modification. (a) Unless by stipulation of the parties or except as provided in Section 603.10 of this Act, no motion to modify an order allocating parental decision-making responsibilities, not including parenting time, may be made earlier than 2 y…

(750 ILCS 62/65) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-653) Sec. 65. Duties and responsibilities of the regional domestic violence fatality review team. (a) Each regional review team shall carry out the following duties and responsibilities: (1) Form a regional review tea…

(750 ILCS 90/65) Sec. 65. Limits of privilege. (a) There is no privilege under Section 55 for a collaborative process communication that is: (1) available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act or made during a session of a collaborative process that is open, or is re…

(750 ILCS 75/65) Sec. 65. Voluntary conversion of civil union to marriage. (a) Parties to a civil union may apply for and receive a marriage license and have the marriage solemnized and registered under Section 209 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, provide…

(750 ILCS 47/65) Sec. 65. Severability. If any provision of this Act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity of that provision or application does not affect other provisions or applications of this Act that can be given effect without the…

(750 ILCS 16/65) Sec. 65. Order of protection; status. Whenever relief sought under this Act is based on allegations of domestic violence, as defined in the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986, the court, before granting relief, shall determine whether any order of protection …

(750 ILCS 80/7) Sec. 7. Private clubs. Nothing in this Act is intended to abrogate, limit, or expand the exemption for private clubs under Section 5-103 of the Illinois Human Rights Act. (Source: P.A. 98-597, eff. 6-1-14.)

(750 ILCS 65/7) (from Ch. 40, par. 1007) Sec. 7. Earnings. A married person may receive, use, and possess his or her own earnings and sue for those earnings in his or her own name, free from the interference of his or her spouse or the creditors of his or her spouse. (Source: P.A…

(750 ILCS 16/7) Sec. 7. Prosecutions by Attorney General. In addition to enforcement proceedings by the several State's Attorneys, a proceeding for the enforcement of this Act may be instituted and prosecuted by the Attorney General in cases referred by the Department of Healthca…

(750 ILCS 50/7) (from Ch. 40, par. 1509) Sec. 7. Process. A. All persons named in the petition for adoption or standby adoption, other than the petitioners and any party who has previously either denied being a parent pursuant to Section 12a of this Act or whose rights have been …

(750 ILCS 25/7) (from Ch. 40, par. 2707) Sec. 7. Expedited Child Support Hearings. (a) Service. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and in Section 11 of this Act, the service of notice to commence an action under this Act may be made by regular mail. The notice shall …

(750 ILCS 10/7) (from Ch. 40, par. 2607) Sec. 7. Enforcement. (a) A premarital agreement is not enforceable if the party against whom enforcement is sought proves that: (1) that party did not execute the agreement voluntarily; or (2) the agreement was unconscionable when it was e…

(750 ILCS 30/7) (from Ch. 40, par. 2207) Sec. 7. Petition. The petition for emancipation shall be verified and shall set forth: (1) the age of the minor; (2) that the minor is a resident of Illinois at the time of the filing of the petition, or owns real estate in Illinois, or ha…

(750 ILCS 62/70) Sec. 70. Case eligible for review by regional review team. A case eligible for review shall include a fatality or near-fatality that occurred within the geographic boundaries of the judicial circuit covered by the regional review team and a qualifying relationshi…

(750 ILCS 16/70) Sec. 70. Severability. If any provision of this Act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity of that provision or application does not affect other provisions or applications of this Act that can be given effect without the…

(750 ILCS 90/70) Sec. 70. Authority of the Illinois Supreme Court. This Act is subject to the supervisory authority of the Illinois Supreme Court. (Source: P.A. 100-205, eff. 1-1-18.)

(750 ILCS 47/70) Sec. 70. Irrevocability. No action to invalidate a gestational surrogacy meeting the requirements of subsection (d) of Section 20 and Section 25 of this Act or to challenge the rights of parentage established pursuant to the Gestational Surrogacy Act shall be com…

(750 ILCS 5/702) (from Ch. 40, par. 702) Sec. 702. Maintenance in Case of Bigamy.) When a dissolution of marriage is granted to a person who shall, in good faith, have intermarried with a person having at the time of such marriage, another spouse or spouses living, the court may,…

(750 ILCS 5/704) (from Ch. 40, par. 704) Sec. 704. Public Aid Provisions.) Except as provided in Sections 709 through 712, if maintenance, child support or both, is awarded to persons who are recipients of aid under "The Illinois Public Aid Code", the court shall direct the husba…

(750 ILCS 5/705) (from Ch. 40, par. 705) Sec. 705. Support payments; receiving and disbursing agents. (1) The provisions of this Section shall apply, except as provided in Sections 709 through 712. (2) In a dissolution of marriage action filed in a county of less than 3 million p…

(750 ILCS 5/706.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 706.1) Sec. 706.1. Withholding of Income to Secure Payment of Support. Orders for support entered under this Act are subject to the Income Withholding for Support Act. (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-425, eff. 8-15-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-…

(750 ILCS 5/706.2) (from Ch. 40, par. 706.2) Sec. 706.2. Posting Security, Bond or Guarantee to Secure Payment. The court may require a parent to post security, bond or give some other guarantee of a character and amount sufficient to assure payment of any amount of support due. …

(750 ILCS 5/706.3) Sec. 706.3. Information concerning obligors. (a) In this Section: "Arrearage", "delinquency", "obligor", and "order for support" have the meanings attributed to those terms in the Income Withholding for Support Act. "Consumer reporting agency" has the meaning a…

(750 ILCS 5/707) (from Ch. 40, par. 707) Sec. 707. Certificate of Dissolution or Invalidity of Marriage - Filing with Department of Public Health.) A certificate of each dissolution of marriage or declaration of invalidity of marriage ordered in this State shall be filed with the…