(705 ILCS 130/20)
Sec. 20.
Grant disbursements.
(a) Subject to the supervisory authority of the Supreme Court, the
Chief Judge of each judicial circuit in which a
domestic relations legal fund has been established shall annually make grant
disbursements from the fund to domestic relations legal charities that handle
domestic relations matters within the
judicial circuit which meet the
criteria in this Section.
(b) Disbursements by the Chief Judge shall be made to qualified
domestic relations legal charities that operate exclusively within a judicial
circuit based on each charity's proportionate share of the total number of
domestic relations cases handled, without collecting a fee or charge from the
indigent litigant, by all qualified domestic relations legal charities
in that circuit during the year prior to application.
(c) In no event shall the disbursements to any domestic relations legal
charity in one year exceed $500,000. Any amounts collected under Section 15
but not
disbursed in a particular year shall:
(1) in single-county judicial circuits, be paid to |
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(2) in judicial circuits of more than one county, be
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| paid to the county treasurers of each county of the judicial circuit for the administration of justice in the judicial circuit, in amounts in proportion to the amounts of the disbursements made by each of the county treasurers to the fund during that year.
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(Source: P.A. 89-56, eff. 1-1-96.)
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