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750 ILCS 75/5 (2026)

Purposes; rules of construction

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(750 ILCS 75/5)
    Sec. 5. Purposes; rules of construction. This Act shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are to provide adequate procedures for the certification and registration of a civil union and provide persons entering into a civil union with the obligations, responsibilities, protections, and benefits afforded or recognized by the law of Illinois to spouses.
(Source: P.A. 96-1513, eff. 6-1-11.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 2015–2020 · leading case: Sharpe v. Westmoreland, 2020 IL 124863 (Ill. 2020).
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Sharpe v. Westmoreland, 2020 IL 124863 (Ill. 2020). “” 750 ILCS 75/5 (West 2016). It expressed its intent that the Civil Union Act be liberally construed to promote that purpose.”
In re Civil Union of Hamlin, 2015 IL App (2d) 140231 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). · cites it 2× “” 750 ILCS 75/5 (West 2010). The purposes of the Act “are to provide adequate procedures for the certification and registration of a civil union and provide persons entering into a civil union with the obligations, responsibilities, protections, and benefits afforded or…”
In re Civil Union of Hamlin, 2015 IL App (2d) 140231 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). · cites it 2× “In order to evaluate respondent’s argument, we begin with the pertinent language of the Act itself.”
Sharpe v. Westmoreland, 2019 IL App (5th) 170321 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019). “750 ILCS 75/5 (West 2016). The Act’s passage was in part a response to the need to afford protection to same-sex couples prior to the legalization of same-sex marriages in Illinois, and the legislative history reflects the intent that partners joined in a civil union and married…”
People v. Thompkins, 2020 IL App (5th) 160345-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). “750 ILCS 75/5 (West 2012). Thus, current public policy may provide less support for limiting the serious provocation instruction to married defendants than it did in 1989, when McCarthy was decided.”
Sharpe v. Westmoreland, 2019 IL App (5th) 170321 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019). “The Act's passage was in part a response to the need to afford protection to same sex couples prior to the legalization of same sex marriages in Illinois, and the legislative history reflects the intent that partners joined in a civil union and married spouses generally shall…”
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