by Dan Sugrue | Oct 23, 2013 | General Legal, Wills & Estate Law
In the Estate of Samuel Zagaria, 2013 IL App(1st) 122879, the Illinois Appellate Court for the 1st District, heard a case of a man who had gone missing for nine years and was presumed to be dead. Upon establishing a presumption of death, the Cook County Probate Court...
by Dan Sugrue | Sep 27, 2013 | General Legal
On October 12, at the Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, at 9;00 am is the Kenneth Varney Educational series Free Fall Forum. The topic will be advances in Down Syndrome Research. I encourage everyone to attend. The main speaker will be Bob Schoen, the President...
by Dan Sugrue | Sep 27, 2013 | Wills & Estate Law
An Illinois Appellate Court decision struck down a lower court case barring a claim against an estate because the circuit court ruled that the claim was not properly pled to allow the claimant to prevail. Justice Mary Schostak wrote the opinion of the Court. Schostak,...
by Dan Sugrue | Sep 24, 2013 | Real Estate Law
In the case of Parkway Bank & Trust Company v. Victor Korzen and Tomas Zanzola, 2013 IL App (1st) 130380, we are treated to a 53 page dissertation on what not to do when defending a residential foreclosure lawsuit. A clearly exasperated appellate court, instead of...
by Dan Sugrue | Sep 22, 2013 | Wills & Estate Law
In the case of In Re Estate of Burren, 2013 Ill App.(1st) 120996, the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, affirmed the ruling of Judge Susan Coleman in the Cook County Circuit court invalidating a will contested by the decedents heirs in which the...
