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750 ILCS 46/201 (2026)

Establishment of parent-child relationship

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(750 ILCS 46/201)
    Sec. 201. Establishment of parent-child relationship.
    (a) The parent-child relationship is established between a person and a child by:
        (1) the woman or person having given birth to the
    
child, except as otherwise provided in the Gestational Surrogacy Act;
        (2) a presumption of the person's parentage of the
    
child under Section 204 of this Act unless the presumption is overcome in a judicial proceeding or a valid denial of parentage is made under Section 303 of this Act;
        (3) an effective voluntary acknowledgment of
    
parentage by the person under Article 3 of this Act, unless the acknowledgment has been rescinded or successfully challenged;
        (4) an adjudication of the person's parentage;
        (5) the person's adoption of the child;
        (6) the person's consent to assisted reproduction
    
under Article 7 of this Act; or
        (7) the person's parentage of the child is
    
established under the provisions of the Gestational Surrogacy Act.
    (b) (Blank).
    (c) (Blank).
(Source: P.A. 104-448, eff. 12-12-25.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 2020–2025 · leading case: In re A.S., 2020 IL App (1st) 200616 (Ill. App. Ct. 2020).
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In re A.S., 2020 IL App (1st) 200616 (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). · cites it 3× “¶ 34 Section 46/201 of the Parentage Act (750 ILCS 46/201 (West 2016)) governs the establishment of the parent-child relationship.”
In re M.S., 2025 IL App (1st) 241925 (Ill. App. Ct. 2025). “See 750 ILCS 46/201(b)(3) (West 2022) (under the Illinois Parentage Act of 2015, “[t]he parent-child relationship is established between a man and a child by *** an adjudication of the man’s parentage”).”
Stingley v. Burtley, 2022 IL App (1st) 211636-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “A valid voluntary acknowledgment “is equivalent to an adjudication of the parentage of a child and confers upon the acknowledged father all of the right and duties of a parent.” 750 ILCS 46/305(a) (West 2020).”
In re D.F., 2024 IL App (1st) 231784 (Ill. App. Ct. 2024). “” This certainly seems like a plan made in advance of some occurrence, and under this plan—as modified when it was decided that Jennifer would also carry their second child— Leslie was supposed to adopt her non-biological child, which would have made her the legal parent of that…”
— 750 ILCS 46/201(a)(1) — 1 case
In re A.S., 2020 IL App (1st) 200616 (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). “¶ 34 Section 46/201 of the Parentage Act (750 ILCS 46/201 (West 2016)) governs the establishment of the parent-child relationship.”
— 750 ILCS 46/201(a)(3) — 1 case
In re D.F., 2024 IL App (1st) 231784 (Ill. App. Ct. 2024). “” This certainly seems like a plan made in advance of some occurrence, and under this plan—as modified when it was decided that Jennifer would also carry their second child— Leslie was supposed to adopt her non-biological child, which would have made her the legal parent of that…”
— 750 ILCS 46/201(b)(1) — 1 case
In re A.S., 2020 IL App (1st) 200616 (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). “¶ 34 Section 46/201 of the Parentage Act (750 ILCS 46/201 (West 2016)) governs the establishment of the parent-child relationship.”
— 750 ILCS 46/201(b)(2) — 1 case
Stingley v. Burtley, 2022 IL App (1st) 211636-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “A valid voluntary acknowledgment “is equivalent to an adjudication of the parentage of a child and confers upon the acknowledged father all of the right and duties of a parent.” 750 ILCS 46/305(a) (West 2020).”
— 750 ILCS 46/201(b)(3) — 1 case
In re M.S., 2025 IL App (1st) 241925 (Ill. App. Ct. 2025). “See 750 ILCS 46/201(b)(3) (West 2022) (under the Illinois Parentage Act of 2015, “[t]he parent-child relationship is established between a man and a child by *** an adjudication of the man’s parentage”).”
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