In re Visitation with C.B.L.

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• holding that section 607 had supplanted the common law of visitation in Illinois because the statute had “evolved from a simple, straightforward codification of the common law of parental visitation to a complex and ever-growing statutory provision”
• noting that legislative intent to supplant the common law can be shown through enactment of detailed and comprehensive legislation
• former same-sex partner of woman who gave birth to child by artificial insemination lacked standing to petition for visitation under Illinois statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).