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PETITION OF K.M.

Nos. 1-95-0161, 1-95-0238.

653 N.E.2d 888 (1995)

274 Ill.App.3d 189

210 Ill.Dec. 693

In re Petition of K.M. and D.M. to Adopt Olivia M., a Minor, Petitioners-Appellants. In re Petition of K.L. and M.M. to Adopt Michael M. and David M., Minors, Petitioners-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

July 18, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy J. Miller and Sandra Raitt, Novack and Macey, Chicago, Joseph T. Monahan, Monahan & Cohen, Chicago, Geoffrey R. Kors, Lauren L. McFarlane, The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Chicago, Patricia M. Logue, Lambda Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc., Chicago, Rosemary S. Mulryan, Mulryan and York, Chicago, for appellants.

Edward J. O'Connell, Chicago, Guardian Ad Litem.

Annette R. Appell, and Steven A. Drizin, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, for amicus curiae.

Justice DiVITO delivered the opinion of the court:

In adoption proceedings in the circuit court of Cook County, unmarried cohabitors of the same sex were held not to have standing to bring petitions to adopt under the terms of the Illinois Adoption Act (the Act) (750 ILCS 50/0.01 et seq. (West 1994)). In each case, one of the petitioners is the natural mother or the adoptive mother of the minors the women seek to adopt jointly.

K.M. AND D.M.

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