Articles From William E. Hourigan

The defacto parent: Legal guardianship without court order or common law parents By William E. Hourigan Family Law, June 2007 The appellate court for the 4th district of Illinois has recently ruled that a person who voluntarily adopts the role of a parent stands in loco parentis and therefore is responsible for that child’s medical bills and has a right of action to collect those bills from a tortfeasor, pursuant to the Family Expense Act, even though that person is not the legal guardian.

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