Illinois Supreme Court
Civil Court
Termination of Parental Rights
State failed to file separate notice specifying nine-month period upon which it was relying in its petition for adjudication of wardship. State's defective notice was not failure to state a cause of action, but a pleading defect. Section 1(D)(m)(iii) of Adoption Act does not require specification of periods at issue in termination petition itself, but requires that State file and service a notice pleading with time periods at least three weeks before discovery closes. (GARMAN, FREEMAN, THOMAS, KILBRIDE, KARMEIER, and BURKE, concurring.)