ILLINOIS
NPO AFFILIATE | IL
STATE CHAIR: Zack Teague
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THE ILLINOIS TEAM
Chair: Zack Teague
Has served NPO Illinois since 2020.
Earned a B.S. in Political Science from Illinois State University.
He has served the National Corporation for Community Service as an AmeriCorps Vista, working in Illinois on Housing Access Issues.
Zack worked with Child Protection Services in Illinois, as a Child Welfare Specialist/Foster care Permanency Worker with a contracting agency of the Illinois DCFS.
In doing so he was able to grasp the due process abuses that Illinois citizen parents and children face as they become clients of the DCFS.
He would describe himself as an experienced Pro Se litigant and legal researcher of Illinois Law.
He is the Father of three children all under age ten.
When not serving Illinois legislative reform efforts he is passionate about, he works building Electric Vehicles in Central Illinois.
The Illinois Chapter is always looking for leadership to join the National Parents Organization
2022 Child Support and Shared Parenting Report Card
WHY DID ILLINOIS RECEIVE A D-?
POSITIVES:
Illinois's PTA appropriately takes into account the effect of the PTA on both parents' households.
Illinois's PTA appropriately results in no presumptive child support transfer payment when parental income and parenting time are both equal.
NEGATIVES:
Illinois's PTA has an extraordinarily and unjustifiably high threshold of 146 days.
Illinois's PTA has an extremely large discontinuity (or discontinuities), creating an extremely large cliff effect or multiple cliff effects.
Illinois's PTA significantly overestimates the fixed, duplicated costs involved in shared parenting.
2019 NPO Shared Parenting Report Card
WHY DID ILLINOIS RECEIVE A C+?
POSITIVES:
Illinois statutes allow a court to determine temporary custody under the standards and procedures that are used to determine permanent custody. This allows a court to award joint physical and legal custody during temporary orders. Illinois statutes include a statement of purposes that includes “secure the maxi- mum involvement and cooperation of both parents regarding the physical, mental, moral and emotional well-being of the children during and after the litigation.”
Illinois statute requires that “Unless the court finds the occurrence of ongoing abuse ..., the court shall presume that the maximum involvement and cooperation of both parents regarding the physical, mental, moral, and emotional well-being of their child is in the best interest of the child.” 750 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/602
Illinois requires a court, in determining the best interest of a child, to consider “the willingness and ability of each parent to facilitate and encourage a close and continuing relationship between the other parent and the child.” 750 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/602
Illinois statutes require a court to consider an award of joint custody upon the application by either parent. 750 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/602.1
NEGATIVES:
Illinois has no statutory preference for, or presumption of, shared parenting (joint legal custody and shared physical custody) for temporary or final orders. Immediately after establishing the presumption that “maximum involvement and cooperation of both parents regarding the physical, mental, moral, and emotional well-being of their child is in the best interest of the child,” the stat- ute continues: “There shall be no presumption in favor of or against joint custody.” 750 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/602
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