Legal Opinion
In Re Petition of Negron
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided October 16, 1975No. 61304PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dempsey
The plaintiff, Hector Negron, is the father of a daughter born out of wedlock in December 1983. The child’s mother died in 1966. In January 1972, the Circuit Court of Cook County entered a decree of adoption awarding the child to foster parents under the provisions of the Illinois Adoption Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 4, pars. 9.1—1, 9.1—8) which permitted a child’s adoption upon the death of its mother without notice to or consent of the unwed father.
In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus-filed in March 1974, Negron asked that the decree of adoption be vacated and that custody of the…
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