(750 ILCS 46/201) Sec. 201. Establishment of parent-child relationship. (a) The parent-child relationship is established between a woman and a child by:
(1) the woman having given birth to the child, except as otherwise provided in the |
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(2) an adjudication of the woman's parentage;
(3) adoption of the child by the woman;
(4) a valid gestational surrogacy arrangement that complies with the Gestational
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| Surrogacy Act or other law; or
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(5) an unrebutted presumption of the woman's parentage of the child under Section 204 of
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(b) The parent-child relationship is established between a man and a child by:
(1) an unrebutted presumption of the man's parentage of the child under Section 204 of
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(2) an effective voluntary acknowledgment of paternity by the man under Article 3 of
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(3) an adjudication of the man's parentage;
(4) adoption of the child by the man; or
(5) a valid gestational surrogacy arrangement that complies with the Gestational
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| Surrogacy Act or other law.
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(c) Insofar as practicable, the provisions of this Act applicable to parent-child relationships shall apply equally to men and women as parents, including, but not limited to, the obligation to support.
(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16; 99-769, eff. 1-1-17.)
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