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92_HB0682

 
                                               LRB9207398DJgc

 1        AN ACT in relation to family law.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The  Adoption  Act  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 3 as follows:

 6        (750 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 40, par. 1504)
 7        Sec. 3. Who may be adopted.
 8        A  male  or  female  child,  or an adult, may be adopted,
 9    provided the other conditions set forth in this Act are  met,
10    and further provided, with respect to an adult, that the such
11    adult  has  resided  in  the home of the persons intending to
12    adopt him at any time for  more  than  2  years  continuously
13    preceding  the  commencement of an adoption proceeding, or in
14    the alternative that the such  persons  are  related  to  him
15    within  a  degree  set  forth  in the definition of a related
16    child in Section 1 of this Act.
17    (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1269.)

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