Lingwall v. Hoener

Section 607(b) of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (IMDMA) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 40, par. 607(b)) provides that a circuit court, upon petition of a grandparent or a great-grandparent of a minor child, may, consistent with the best interests of the child, grant that grandparent or great-grandparent visitation privileges with the child. The issue in this case is whether such privileges may be granted even though the parent of the child, through whom the petitioner is related to the child, has been deprived of all parental rights in the child through adoption…