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• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 1
  Short Title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Parentage Act of 1984".

  (Source: P.A. 83-1372.)

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 1.1
  Public Policy. Illinois recognizes the right of every child to the physical, mental, emotional and monetary support of his or her parents under this...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 2
  Parent and Child Relationship Defined. As used in this Act, "parent and child relationship" means the legal relationship existing between a child and his...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 2.5
  Definitions. As used in this Act, the terms "gestational surrogacy", "gestational surrogate", and "intended parent" have the same meanings as the terms are defined in...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 3
  Relationship and Support Not Dependent on Marriage. The parent and child relationship, including support obligations, extends equally to every child and to every parent,...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 3.1
  A child's mother or a person found to be the father of a child under this Act, is not relieved of support and maintenance...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 4
  How Parent and Child Relationship Established. The parent and child relationship between a child and

  (1) the natural mother may be established by...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 4.1
  Administrative paternity determinations. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services may make administrative determinations of paternity and nonpaternity...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 5
  Presumption of Paternity.

  (a) A man is presumed to be the natural father of a child if:

  (1) he and the child's natural...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 6
  Establishment of Parent and Child Relationship by Consent of the Parties.

  (a) A parent and child relationship may be established voluntarily by the signing and...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 6.5
  Custody or visitation by sex offender prohibited.

  (a) This Section applies to a person who has been found to be the father of a...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 7
  Determination of Father and Child Relationship; Who May Bring Action; Parties.

  (a) An action to determine the existence of the father and child relationship,...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 8
  Statute of limitations.

  (a) (1) An action brought by or on behalf of a child, an

  action brought by a party alleging that...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 9
  Jurisdiction; Venue. (a) The circuit courts shall have jurisdiction of an action brought under this Act. In any civil action not brought under this...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 9.1
  Notice to Presumed Father.

  (a) In any action brought under Section 6 or 7 of this Act where the man signing the petition...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 10
  Pre-trial Proceedings. (a) As soon as practicable after an action to declare the existence or non-existence of the father and child relationship has been...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 11
  Tests to determine inherited characteristics.

  (a) In any action brought under Section 7 to determine the existence of the father and child relationship or...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 12
  Pre-Trial Recommendations. (a) On the basis of the information produced at a pretrial conference, the court shall evaluate the probability of determining the existence...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 12.1
  Settlement Orders. In cases where the alleged father has not consented to a finding of paternity and where the parties have requested a settlement,...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 13
  Civil Action.

  (a) An action under this Act is a civil action governed by the provisions of the "Code of Civil Procedure", approved...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 13.1
  Temporary order for child support. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, pending the outcome of a judicial determination of parentage, the court shall issue...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 13.5
  Injunctive relief.

  (a) In any action brought under this Act for the initial determination of custody or visitation of a child or for...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 14
  Judgment.

  (a) (1) The judgment shall contain or explicitly reserve provisions concerning any duty and amount of child support and may contain provisions concerning...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 14.1
  Information to State Case Registry.

  (a) In this Section:

  "Order for support", "obligor", "obligee", and "business day" are defined as set forth in...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 14.5
  Information to locate putative fathers and noncustodial parents.

  (a) Upon request by a public office, employers, labor unions, and telephone companies shall provide...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 15
  Enforcement of Judgment or Order.

  (a) If existence of the parent and child relationship is declared, or paternity or duty of support has...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 15.1
  (a) Whenever it is determined in a proceeding to establish or enforce a child support obligation that the person owing a duty of support is...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 15.2
  Order of protection; status. Whenever relief is sought under this Act, the court, before granting relief, shall determine whether any order of protection has...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 16
  Modification of Judgment. The court has continuing jurisdiction to modify an order for support, custody, visitation, or removal included in a judgment entered under...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 17
  Costs. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the court may order reasonable fees of counsel, experts, and other costs of the action, pre-trial...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 18
  Right to Counsel; Free Transcript on Appeal.

  (a) Any party may be represented by counsel at all proceedings under this Act.

  (a-5) In...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 19
  Action to Declare Mother and Child Relationship. Any interested party may bring an action to determine the existence or non-existence of a mother and...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 20
  Withholding of Income to Secure Payment of Support. Orders for support entered under this Act are subject to the Income Withholding for Support Act....
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 20.5
  Information concerning obligors.

  (a) In this Section:

  "Arrearage", "delinquency", "obligor", and "order for support" have the meanings attributed to those terms in...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 20.7
  Interest on support obligations. A support obligation, or any portion of a support obligation, which becomes due and remains unpaid as of the end of...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 21
  Support payments; receiving and disbursing agents.

  (1) In an action filed in a county of less than 3 million population in which an order...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 21.1
  Payment of Support to State Disbursement Unit.

  (a) As used in this Section:

  "Order for support", "obligor", "obligee", and "payor" mean those terms...

• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 22
  In all cases instituted by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public Aid) on behalf of a child or spouse,...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 23
  Notice to Clerk of Circuit Court of Payment Received by Department of Healthcare and Family Services for Recording. For those cases in which support is...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 25
  Except as provided in Section 8 of this Act, the repeal of the "Paternity Act", approved July 5, 1957, as amended, shall not affect...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 26
  If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 27
  Other states' establishments of paternity. Establishments of paternity made under the laws of other states shall be given full faith and credit in this...
• Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. - 750 ILCS 45, Section 28
  Notice of child support enforcement services. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services may provide notice at any time to the parties to an action...

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