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· 2/15/1921

People ex rel. Knecht v. Payne

Citations

  • 296 Ill. 236
  • 129 N.E. 759

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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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