JUVENILE COURT BLANKS The following blanks have received the approval of Hon. R. S. Tuthill of the Juvenile Court of Chicago. They show the mode of procedure whereby the children are brought before the Juvenile Court of Cook County, Illinois, by which the court obtains jurisdiction and information in reference to children: 1. Petition-Dependent child. 2. Petition-Delinquent child. 3. History sheet (the history sheet is not jurisdictional, but simply a memorandum to the court). 4. Summons. 5. Affidavit showing necessity for a warrant. 6. Warrant. 7. Verdict of the jury (when a jury is required). 8. Order pardoning a delinquent child. 9. Decree-Dependent child. 10. Decree Delinquent child. 11. Commission appointing probation officers. 12. Instructions to probation officers by the court. 13. Parole card. 14. Report blank. 15. Filing on back of each blank. Each of the above blanks is printed on a separate sheet. County, is a Dependent Child, in this; that d the said a. Your petitioner further represents that the said child is in the custody or control of or with..... residing at that the father of said child is.. and that his residence is... that the mother of said child is.. and that her residence is that the legal guardian of said child is........ and that h― residence is..... that a near relative of said child is. and that h― residence is.... Your petitioner further shows that the said named relatives, to wit:..... consents that said child may be taken away from... and committed to the care, education and training of some suitable person or Association or Institution that has been accredited according to law by the State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois and also placed under the guardianship of some suitable person to be appointed by this Honorable Court. Your petitioner further shows that said..... of said child have wholly neglected, failed and refused and do neglect, fail and refuse to properly care for said child, and that they and each of them are unfit and improper guardians and are wholly unable (or unwilling) to (a) care for, protect, train, educate, control, or discipline said child by reason whereof... has become and is depend ent as aforesaid. And that f Your petitioner prays that the said of... and each of them and ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, who are hereby made parties defendant hereto, be required to personally be and appear before this Honorable Court, on the........... ..day of..... 19....at the hour ...M. and then and there have said child in open Court, and show if they or either of them can, why the said child should not be forthwith taken from ..and thereafter be and remain a ward of this Honorable Court, and committed to the care, education and training of some suitable person, or Association or Institution, that has been accredited according to law by the State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois and also awarded by this Court, to the guardianship of some proper and suitable person. And that upon the hearing of this cause, this Honorable Court make such disposition of the custody of said child as will best serve the interest of said child and the people of the State of Illinois, in accordance with the statute in such case made and provided and the defendants or some of them be ordered to pay a reasonable amount from time to time for the support, maintenance and education of said child.... And that the Court appoint some proper and suitable person guardian over the person of said child and authorize and empower such guardian to assent to the legal adoption of said child should any proceedings for its adoption be commenced in any Court at any time during her guardianship, without any notice to or assent by any person other than such guardian of said child, and make such other and further orders in this cause as to your Honor shall seem meet according to equity and good conscience and according to the statute in such case made and provided. May it please your Honors to grant unto your petitioner the writ of summons issued out of Chancery directed to the Sheriff or any Probation officer of said County therein and thereby commanding him to summon the said... and ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN to personally be and appear before this Honorable Court on the......day of ... 19.. at the hour of.... and that they then and there have said (d) in open Court. Attorney for Petitioner. State of Illinois ..M. County of Cook SS. ...being first duly sworn deposes and says that afflant has read the above and foregoing petition by affiant subscribed and knows the contents thereof and that the same is true to the best of affiant's knowledge and belief. a Insert the name of the child. Spell accurately. b Insert "boy" or "girl." c Insert date of birth as nearly as known. d Insert "he" or "she." e Insert one or more facts constituting dependency in exact words of Section I of the Statute; e. g.: (1) Is not a permanent place of abode. (2) Has not sufficient means of subsistence. (3) Is in a poor house at, to-wit:.... County and State aforesaid. (4) Is now in a certain house of ill fame at, to-wit:.... .within the County and State aforesaid, but is not an inmate thereof. (5) Is now in..... .a prison within said County, and not charged with, or convicted of any penal offence. (6) Has not proper (a) parental care, (b) guardianship. (7) Is destitute, homeless and abandoned. (8) Is dependent upon the public for support. (9) Is living in a certain house of ill fame, at, to-wit: ... within the said County. (10) (a) lives, (b) consorts with certain vicious and disreputable persons whose names are to petitioner unknown. (11) Has a home, which by reason of the (a) neglect, (b) cruelty, (c) depravity of... ....in whose care said child is, has become and is an unfit place for said child. (13) In the County aforesaid, on, to-wit: the...... day of... ..A. D. 19.. and for a long time prior thereto did go about and frequent (2) certain streets, alleys, and other places for the purpose of (1) begging, (2) receiving alms. (14) In the County aforesaid did frequent the company of certain (1) reputed thieves, (e) vicious persons, whose names and residences are to petitioner unknown. |