Court Opinion

ID: 9521051
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 01:55:56.280279+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:47:35.139298
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH, specially concurring: I agree that failure to serve the mother with notice requires reversal of the judgment in this case, but I cannot agree that the court was without jurisdiction to enter the order of adjudication. The concept that the failure to give notice failed “to invoke the jurisdiction of the court” (104 Ill. 2d at 6) is an archaic vestige of an earlier body of law, and it is time that it be laid to rest. In my special concurring opinion in People v. R.D.S. (1983), 94 Ill. 2d 77, 83-85, I traced the origin of this now inoperative rule and demonstrated that it did not survive the adoption of the Constitution of 1970. The court had jurisdiction, and a court which has jurisdiction has jurisdiction to be right or wrong. In proceeding in the matter without having required the noncustodial mother to be served with notice, the court was wrong, and the order must be reversed. UNDERWOOD and SIMON, JJ., join in this special concurrence.