In re Interest of Nyce

This is an appeal from a dispositional order of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Juvenile Division, placing Helena Marie Nyce, a minor (about one month old), under the guardianship of the Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Georgette Nyce, mother of Helena Marie, has prosecuted the appeal in which she alleges that the Circuit Court lacked jurisdiction to enter the order in that: (a) the requisite jurisdictional facts were not established by a preponderance of the evidence; (b) statutory procedures with respect to obtaining physical custody of the person of…