In re G.P. a Minor

              No. 3--08--0332
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Filed October 6, 2008
IN THE
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS
THIRD DISTRICT
A.D., 2008
In re G.P., ) Appeal from the Circuit Court
) of the 12th Judicial Circuit,
a Minor ) Will County, Illinois,
)
(The People of the State of Illinois, ))
Petitioner-Appellee, ) No. 04-JA–129
)
v. ))
R.P., ) Honorable
) Rodney B. Lechwar,
Respondent-Appellant). ) Judge, Presiding.
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JUSTICE WRIGHT delivered the opinion of the court:
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Respondent R.P. is the father of the minor child G.P. The trial court found that D.M.,
the mother of the minor, neglected G.P. in 2004 by providing an injurious environment for the
child. On June 17, 2005, at the dispositional hearing, the trial court placed the minor in the
custody of father but kept the case open to address visitation with mother. After the
dispositional hearing, father filed two separate motions, one in 2006 and one in 2007, asking the
court to dismiss the juvenile case in order to allow the issues concerning the minor to be
singularly addressed through family court or, in the alternative, to transfer and consolidate the
juvenile case with the family court case. The trial court denied both petitions. Prior to father’s