WILLIAMS EX REL. WILLIAMS v. DAVENPORT

No. 1-98-2015.

713 N.E.2d 1224 (1999)

306 Ill. App.3d 465

239 Ill.Dec. 374

Rose WILLIAMS, on behalf of Rasheed WILLIAMS, a minor, Plaintiff (State of Illinois, Appellant), v. Willie DAVENPORT, Defendant (Pasulka & Associates, P.C., Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

June 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Robert J. Ruiz, Deputy State's Attorney, and Mary T. Donoghue and Leonard N. Foster, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Appellant.

David P. Pasulka and Sally Ann Martin of David P. Pasulka & Associates, P.C., Chicago, for Appellee.


Justice McBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal arises from a circuit court order finding the Illinois Department of Public Aid (Department) and defendant jointly and severally liable for attorney fees and costs of the appointed guardian ad litem in the instant paternity action. For the following reasons we reverse.

On August 8, 1995, plaintiff Rose Williams filed a complaint to determine whether Willie Davenport was the father of her...

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