In re Lena S.

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Abuse and Neglect
Citation
Case Number: 
2020 IL App (1st) 191293
Decision Date: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 1st Div.
Holding: 
Reversed and remanded with directions.
Justice: 
WALKER

Court entered a dispositional order finding Respondent parents unfit to parent their daughter. Court had no sufficient grounds for rejecting the opinions of all the experts  (therapists and counselors who treated mother and daughter, and who all found mother fit to parent her daughter); and the witnesses (father's mother and sister, who recommended that daughter be returned to mother's custody) who knew the family best. Order is reversed and remanded for order finding Respondent mother fit to parent daughter and returning her to mother's custody. (GRIFFIN and HYMAN, concurring.)