In re J.P.J.

The common question in these three appeals concerns the failure to provide actual notice of juvenile delinquency proceedings to the minors’ noncustodial parents. In two of the cases, no notice was given; in the third, notice by publication was attempted, but it was flawed.

In cause No. 60018, a petition for an adjudication of wardship of the respondent minor, J.P.J., was filed in the circuit court of Du Page County on February 14, 1983. Named as respondents in the petition were the minor, his mother, and his father. The minor’s parents were divorced, and the minor lived with his mother in…