STATE OF ILLINOIS) )SS COUNTY OF WILL ) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Petitioners VS. _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Defendants CASE NO.________________________ DECREE OF ADOPTION This cause coming on to be heard upon the verified petition of_____________________________________ for the adoption of______________________________________, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "child, and_________________________________________________________________________________ and the court being fully advised in the premises finds as follows: (1) Defendants are all the persons entitled to be notified of the within proceedings and have been so notified in the following manner:_____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ (2) Valid properly acknowledged consents to the adoption of said child and have been filed as required by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois entitled "An Act in relation to the adoption of persons and to repeal an act therein named", approved July 17, 1959 as follows:________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ (2a) Consents to the adoption of said child have not been filed for the following reasons:________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ (3) It appearing to the court that_____________________________________________________ defendant ___ are in the military service of the United States, or that their military status is unknown, thereupon the court appointed______________________________________________, attorney of record for such defendant__ or those who may be in the military service of the United States. Page 1 of 3 3E (Revised 12-99) 3 Pages 2000 © American LegalNet, Inc. (4) The court heretofore appointed___________________________________________________ guardian ad litem of said child. (5) On _____________________________, 20___, the court appointed_____________________ to make the investigation required to be made under the provisions of said Act as to the allegations contained in said petition, the character, reputation and general standing in the community of the petitioners, the religious faith of the petitioners and, if ascertainable, of said child, whether petitioners are proper persons to adopt said child and whether said child is a proper subject of adoption. The said__________________________________________ has mad a report of said investigation to the court which report the court approves. (6) On ____________________________, 20___, which was at a time as soon as practicable after the filing of said petition, the court held a hearing for the purpose of complying with Section 13 of said Act and, as shown by the records kept by the Clerk of the Court, the hearing thereof and the order or orders entered by the court complied with said Section 13. (7) (8) Said child not being a related child, one of the orders referred to in Par. 6 hereof was an interim Upon this _________day of _____________________, 20___, petitioners have applied to this order entered _________________________, 20___, vesting temporary care, custody and control of the child in the petitioners. court for the entry of a decree of adoptions. Notice of said application was served by petitioners upon the following agency or person and at the following time and manner:______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ (9) (9a) A hearing was held upon said application on ______________________, 20___, at which A hearing was held upon said application on ______________________, 20___, at which petitioner and the child appeared. hearing______________________________________________________________ did not appear because such appearance was waived by the court for good cause shown which was as follows:__________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ (10) The court is satisfied from the report referred to in Par. 5 hereof and from the evidence introduced at said hearing that the adoption is for the welfare of said child and that the consents for adoption referred to in Par. 2 hereof are valid and have been filed by all persons required to do so under the provisions of said Act in order for the court to enter this decree. (10a) The court is satisfied from the report referred to in Par. 5 hereof and from the evidence introduced at said hearing that the adoption is the welfare of said child and that no consent for adoption is required as provided in Section 8 of said Act for the reasons given in Par. 2-a hereof. (11) allegations are true. The evidence given at the aforesaid hearing sustained the allegations of said petition and said Page 2 of 3 2000 © American LegalNet, Inc. (12) The said child was born on _________________________________, 20___, in the County of _________________________________, State of ______________________________. Petitioners reside in the County of ______________________, State of______________________________. The parents of said child reside as follows:____________________________________________________________________________ ___