Feuer v. Barokas

PRESIDING JUSTICE CAMPBELL

delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondent, Mary Jane Barokas, appeals from a decision of the circuit court of Cook County awarding custody of respondent’s 15-year-old daughter, Peri Barokas, to nonparents, petitioners Stephen R. Feuer and Linda M. Feuer, under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 40, par. 101 et seq.) (hereinafter IMDMA). The issues raised on appeal are: (1) whether petitioners had standing to commence the action; and (2) whether section 610 of the IMDMA establishes the appropriate standard for change…