In Re Austin W.

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• holding - 17 - “[t]he best-interests determination is then reviewed under the ‘manifest weight of the evidence’ standard”
• recognizing that “once a child has been made a ward of the court and a dispositional order has been entered, the court may, at any time, vacate the original dispositional order and enter any other dispositional order that it could have initially entered”
• question of \whether a change in circumstances warranting modification of the dispositional order has occurred\ is not justiciable because it was subsumed into the paramount issue—the best-interest inquiry
• the child’s best interest is not part of an equation and may not be balanced against any other interest
• GAL filed a petition to change custody

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