Category Archives: Visitation

VISITATION WITH UNRELATED CHILDREN 750 ILCS 5/607

In Illinois, visitation rights with children of married and unmarried parents is governed by 750 ILCS 5/607, and it is established using a “best interests” standard.  A party seeking to restrict visitation must prove to the court that regular visitation would create a “serious endangerment” to the child. In a recent divorce case I represented the father of two children. His wife also had a child from a prior relationship, and that child had no relationship with her biological father. After five years of marriage a divorce wasContinue reading