Articles on Guardian Ad Litem

Letter to the editor Family Law, February 2003 I am responding to Scott Colky's article entitled "The Child Representative Statute is Unconstitutional."
Illinois State Bar Association Task Force on Attorneys for Minor Children By Robert K. Downs & John T. Phillips Family Law, June 1999 In the past 10 years the general public and the legal community have become much more sensitive to the issue of children's involvement in the legal system in the areas of divorce, custody, visitation, support and paternity.
Guardian ad litem immunity in Illinois child protection proceedings By Diane Geraghty Child Law, February 1999 Illinois law requires the appointment of a guardian ad litem (GAL) in all child abuse or neglect cases filed in juvenile court. 705 ILCS 405/2-17(1)(a) (1988).

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