by Dan Sugrue | Aug 30, 2016 | Wills & Estate Law
The Top Three Benefits of a Living Trust by Michelle Fabio, Esq. It’s a given that you should have a written legal document distributing your assets at your death. Now the question becomes: should you have a will or living trust? It is estimated that only about...
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 | 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 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...
by Dan Sugrue | Sep 20, 2013 | Wills & Estate Law
In the case of In Re ESTATE OF BOYER, 2013 IL 113655, the Illinois Supreme Court deals with the old and little used legal doctrine of election in probate law. The case involved an man living in the Alzheimer’s unit in a nursing home in La Grange Park, and...
