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IN RE MARRIAGE OF BROWNFIELD

No. 4-95-0964.

670 N.E.2d 1198 (1996)

283 Ill. App.3d 728

219 Ill.Dec. 310

In re the MARRIAGE OF Marc A. BROWNFIELD, Petitioner, and Joan M. Madrigal, f/k/a Joan N. Brownfield, Respondent-Appellant, and Cynthia A. Brownfield, Intervenor-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Decided September 25, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Q. Jones (argued), Novak & Jones, P.C., Urbana, for Joan M. Madrigal.

Betsy Pendleton Wong (argued), Phebus, Winkelmann, Wong & Bramfeld, Urbana, for Marc A. Brownfield.

GARMAN, Justice, delivered the opinion of the court:

In January 1995, intervenor Cynthia Brownfield (Cindy), stepmother of two minor children, Shane and Tanya Brownfield (born April 10, 1985, and October 20, 1987, respectively) brought a petition for custody in the underlying dissolution action after the children's father, Marc Brownfield, died. The circuit court found Cindy had standing to seek custody and awarded custody of both children to Cindy.

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