IN RE K.S.

Nos. 4-90-0021, 4-90-0022, 4-90-0140 and 4-90-0141.

560 N.E.2d 1380 (1990)

203 Ill. App.3d 586

148 Ill.Dec. 682

In re K.S., et al., Minors The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Leslie Smith, Respondent-Appellant. In re K.S. et al., Minors The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Walter Smith, Respondent-Appellant. In re K.S., a Minor The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Leslie Smith, Respondent-Appellant. In re K.S., a Minor The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Walter Smith, Respondent-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

September 25, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Silkwood, Lynn Feldman, Kirtley-Pavia-Marsh, Urbana, for respondents-appellants.

Thomas J. Difanis, State's Atty., Urbana, Kenneth R. Boyle, Director State's Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, Springfield, Robert J. Biderman, Deputy Director, Rebecca L. White, Staff Atty., for petitioner-appellee.

Betsy Bier, James Kuehl, Asst. Public Defenders, Urbana, Guardian ad Litem.


Justice STEIGMANN delivered the opinion of the court:

Section 1(D)(m) of the Adoption Act (Ill. Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 40, par. 1501(D)(m)) defines "unfit person" as "any person whom the court shall find to be unfit to have a child" because of the "failure by a parent to make reasonable efforts to correct the conditions which were the basis for the removal of the child from such parent, or to make reasonable progress toward...

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