· 2/15/1921
People ex rel. Knecht v. Payne
Citations
- 296 Ill. 236
- 129 N.E. 759
How courts have described this case
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- “a parent’s interest in the care, custody, and control of his child is ‘perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests’”
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Judges: Duncan
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