97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3652

 

Introduced 2/10/2012, by Sen. Chris Lauzen

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/2-1401  from Ch. 110, par. 2-1401

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change to the Section concerning relief from judgments.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5changing Section 2-1401 as follows:
 
6    (735 ILCS 5/2-1401)  (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1401)
7    Sec. 2-1401. Relief from judgments.
8    (a) Relief from final orders and and judgments, after 30
9days from the entry thereof, may be had upon petition as
10provided in this Section. Writs of error coram nobis and coram
11vobis, bills of review and bills in the nature of bills of
12review are abolished. All relief heretofore obtainable and the
13grounds for such relief heretofore available, whether by any of
14the foregoing remedies or otherwise, shall be available in
15every case, by proceedings hereunder, regardless of the nature
16of the order or judgment from which relief is sought or of the
17proceedings in which it was entered. Except as provided in
18Section 6 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, there shall be
19no distinction between actions and other proceedings,
20statutory or otherwise, as to availability of relief, grounds
21for relief or the relief obtainable.
22    (b) The petition must be filed in the same proceeding in
23which the order or judgment was entered but is not a

 

 

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1continuation thereof. The petition must be supported by
2affidavit or other appropriate showing as to matters not of
3record. All parties to the petition shall be notified as
4provided by rule.
5    (c) Except as provided in Section 20b of the Adoption Act
6and Section 2-32 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or in a
7petition based upon Section 116-3 of the Code of Criminal
8Procedure of 1963, the petition must be filed not later than 2
9years after the entry of the order or judgment. Time during
10which the person seeking relief is under legal disability or
11duress or the ground for relief is fraudulently concealed shall
12be excluded in computing the period of 2 years.
13    (d) The filing of a petition under this Section does not
14affect the order or judgment, or suspend its operation.
15    (e) Unless lack of jurisdiction affirmatively appears from
16the record proper, the vacation or modification of an order or
17judgment pursuant to the provisions of this Section does not
18affect the right, title or interest in or to any real or
19personal property of any person, not a party to the original
20action, acquired for value after the entry of the order or
21judgment but before the filing of the petition, nor affect any
22right of any person not a party to the original action under
23any certificate of sale issued before the filing of the
24petition, pursuant to a sale based on the order or judgment.
25    (f) Nothing contained in this Section affects any existing
26right to relief from a void order or judgment, or to employ any

 

 

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1existing method to procure that relief.
2(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)