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Family law judge backtracks on visitation order for mom regarding COVID-19 vaccine

After entering an order sua sponte to suspend a parent’s visitation rights until she received the COVID-19 vaccine, an Illinois family law judge revisited the issue Monday with a new order striking the restriction.

The Cook County, Illinois, action involves Rebecca Firlit and Matthew Duiven, who divorced seven years ago and share custody of their 11-year-old son, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. According to the article, Firlit was advised by her doctor not to get the vaccine because she had “adverse reactions to vaccines in the past.”

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