In Re Jay H.

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• recognizing that both a dispositional hearing and a best-interests hearing are functional equivalents, and as such both types of hearings “are subject to the same relaxed standard regarding the admission of evidence—that is, the formal rules of evidence do not apply”
• “ ‘Although hearsay and other types of incompetent evidence may not be admissible at the adjudicatory hearing, they are admissible at the dispositional hearing.’ ” (quoting In re D.L., 226 Ill. App. 3d 177, 187 (1992))

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