· 12/20/1999
Estate of Vail v. First of America Trust
Citations
- 722 N.E.2d 248
- 309 Ill. App. 3d 435
- 242 Ill. Dec. 759
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “The attorney for the executor does not have an attorney-client relationship with the beneficiaries ***. When an adversarial situation arises, the attorney for the executor owes allegiance only to the estate.”
- ‘The attorney for the executor does not have an attorney-client relationship with the beneficiaries ***. When an adversarial situation arises, the attorney for the executor owes allegiance only to the estate’
- “The attorney for the executor does not have an attorney-client relationship with the beneficiaries ***. When an adversarial situation arises, the attorney for the executor owes allegiance only to the estate”
- attorney for executor does not have attorney-client relationship with a will's beneficiaries, thus the attorney may represent the estate against a challenge by a beneficiary because attorney for executor \owes allegiance only to the estate\
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Judges: McCULLOUGH
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