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IN RE R.M.

No. 1-96-0518.

681 N.E.2d 652 (1997)

288 Ill. App.3d 811

224 Ill.Dec. 337

In re R.M., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Tara Smith, Intervenor-Appellant (The Department of Children and Family Services, Appellant)).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

May 27, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stacy E. Platt, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, Laurene Heybach, Law Project, Oak Park, Alan M. Poster and Mary L. Mills, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, for Intervenor-Appellant.

Patrick T. Murphy, Public Guardian, Ron Fritsch, Chicago, for Minor-Appellee.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General of Illinois, Barbara A. Preiner and Erik G. Light, Chicago, for Department of Children and Family Services.

Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

Intervenor Tara Smith and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) appeal from a juvenile court order granting the guardian ad litem's (GAL's) motion that the minor child, R.M., be removed from Smith's foster care and placed with foster parents Kent and Pamela Lawton. Both Smith and DCFS claim on appeal that the juvenile court acted outside its statutory authority when it entered an order...

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