Johnson v. Burnett

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• holding that parties not related to the child could not file an adoption petition and later prove the unfitness of the natural parents because the child was not available for adoption as defined in the Adoption Act; parents had to be found unfit before petition could be filed
• describing a foster parent’s role in Illinois as “that of a temporary way station on the road of a child’s life,” not a family for whom a future permanent situation is guaranteed
• foster parents do not have constitutionally protected liberty interests in the continued care of foster children
• foster parents do not have constitutionally protected liberty interests in the continued care of foster children
• Iowa law does not create a liberty interest in foster family relationship after any certain period of time
• foster parent entitled to notice under Act but not under Adoption Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).