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00:00:04 in Illinois uh we use a statute under the Illinois Marriage and Divorce Act that focuses on the best interest of the child the best interest of the child standard is a grouping of 17 factors that the court can use to determine which parent should be allocated what amount of parenting time and what level of decision-making authority examples of those best interest factors would be the interest of the child the um interest of each parent and their wishes whether one parent is able to put the child’s
00:00:36 interest above their own many things in that similar vein the important thing to remember uh relative to the best interest factors is that no one factor out of those 17 factors is going to carry more weight than the others