Parent-child contact hearings
Jennifer B. v. Dan H.
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- After a family court issued an emergency order without Jennifer Barron present following about 49 minutes’ email notice, it barred all parent-child contact until a trial about eight months later.
- What's at stake
- The unresolved question concerns Barron’s ability to obtain appellate review of the roughly eight months when the order barred all contact with her child.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Barron asks the Supreme Court to review an Illinois appeals court ruling that a later final order replaced the emergency order, leaving no effective appellate relief for that period.
A family court issued the emergency order without Jennifer Barron present after about 49 minutes’ email notice. It barred all parent-child contact until a trial about eight months later.
The Illinois appeals court said a later final order replaced the emergency order, leaving no effective appellate relief for the interim period.
Question presented
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause permits an emergency order eliminating all parent-child contact to remain in effect for approximately eight months without a prompt adversarial hearing, and whether a later merits hearing automatically cures or moots the completed interim deprivation.
What happens next
The Supreme Court must decide whether to hear the petition. No oral argument date or decision timing is set.
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