750 ILCS 36/102
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 750 - FAMILIES|750 ILCS 36/ - Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.|Article 1 - General Provisions

Sec. 102.     Definitions.     In this Act:(1) "Abandoned" means left without provision for reasonable and necessary  care or supervision.(2) "Child" means an individual who has not attained 18 years of age.(3) "Child-custody determination" means a judgment, decree, or other order  of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody, or visitation  with  respect to a child.  The term includes a permanent, temporary, initial, and  modification order.  The term does not include an order relating to child  support or  other monetary obligation of an individual.(4) "Child-custody proceeding" means a proceeding in which legal custody,  physical custody, or visitation with respect to a child is an issue.  The term  includes  a proceeding for divorce, separation, neglect, abuse, dependency, guardianship,  paternity, termination of parental rights, and protection from domestic  violence, in  which the issue may appear.  The term does not include a proceeding involving  juvenile delinquency, contractual emancipation, or enforcement under Article 3.(5) "Commencement" means the filing of the first pleading in a proceeding.(6) "Court" means an entity authorized under the law of a state to  establish,  enforce, or modify a child-custody determination.(7) "Home state" means the state in which a child lived with a parent or a  person acting as a parent for at least six consecutive months immediately  before the  commencement of a child-custody proceeding.  In the case of a child less than  six  months of age, the term means the state in which the child lived from birth  with  any of the persons mentioned.  A period of temporary absence of any of the  mentioned persons is part of the period.(8) "Initial determination" means the first child-custody determination  concerning a particular child.(9) "Issuing court" means the court that makes a child-custody  determination for which enforcement is sought under this Act.(10) "Issuing state" means the state in which a child-custody determination  is made.(11) "Modification" means a child-custody determination that changes,  replaces, supersedes, or is otherwise made after a previous determination  concerning the same child, whether or not it is made by the court that made the  previous determination.(12) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate,  trust,  partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government;  governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or  any  other legal or commercial entity.(13) "Person acting as a parent" means a person, other than a parent, who:(A) has physical custody of the child or has had     physical custody for a period of six consecutive months, including any temporary absence, within one year immediately before the commencement of a child-custody proceeding; and(B) has been awarded legal custody by a court or     claims a right to legal custody under the law of this State.(14) "Physical custody" means the physical care and supervision of a child.(15) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia,  Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular  possession  subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.(16) "Tribe" means an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan Native village,  which is recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state.(17) "Warrant" means an order issued by a court authorizing law  enforcement officers to take physical custody of a child.    (Source: P.A. 93-108, eff. 1-1-04.)