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91_HB2727
LRB9103038SMdv
1 AN ACT to amend the Adoption Act by adding Section 14b.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by adding Section
5 14b as follows:
6 (750 ILCS 50/14b new)
7 Sec. 14b. Death of intended adoptive parent prior to
8 entry of judgment. After any court has acquired jurisdiction
9 over the person of any intended adoptive parent in an
10 adoption proceeding, if the intended adoptive parent dies
11 before entry of final judgment, upon petition by the other
12 intended adoptive parent or the child's guardian ad litem
13 suggesting the death of the intended adoptive parent and
14 asking that the court proceed in absence of the deceased
15 intended adoptive parent to enter a final judgment, in the
16 presence of the other intended adoptive parent or the child
17 to be adopted who is a party to the record, the court shall
18 proceed to hearing and final judgment to enable the child to
19 have the intended name by adoption. Otherwise the court may
20 dismiss the proceeding.
21 In the case of an adoption proceeding commenced after the
22 death of the person seeking to adopt, the child intended to
23 be adopted shall not, by reason of the adoption, acquire any
24 interest in the estate of the deceased intended adoptive
25 parent, nor shall the child intended to be adopted acquire
26 any other right or incur any duty or obligation with respect
27 to the deceased person.
28 This amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly shall
29 apply to all cases in which the court acquired jurisdiction
30 of the person of any intended adoptive parent in an adoption
31 proceeding, if such jurisdiction was acquired on or after
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1 November 1, 1997.