Vanderlaan v. Vanderlaan

Plaintiff appealed from a judgment denying her petition to modify a decree which had awarded custody of her two youngest children to defendant.

On June 24, 1970, we rendered an opinion (126 Ill.App.2d 410), reversing the judgment of the trial court on the ground that defendant, the unmarried father of two children, had no right to the society of his children born out of wedlock. The basis of our decision was Section 62 of the Paternity Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 106—¾, par. 62), which provides:

“A person charged or alleged to be the father of a child born out of wedlock, whether or not…