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IN RE MARRIAGE OF BURGESS

No. 3-85-0129.

138 Ill. App.3d 13 (1985)

485 N.E.2d 504

In re MARRIAGE OF LENORE A. BURGESS, Petitioner-Appellee, and JOHN W. BURGESS, Respondent-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Opinion filed November 1, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin H. Katz, Samuel S. McHard, and Donovan S. Robertson, all of Katz, McAndrews, Durkee, Balch & Lefstein, of Rock Island, for appellant.

William M. Walker and James J. Coryn, both of Coryn, Walker & Meehan, of Rock Island, for appellee.

Judgment reversed.

PRESIDING JUSTICE HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue raised on this appeal calls for a determination of whether the trial court's award of maintenance to the wife may stand in view of the fact that the parties had entered into a valid antenuptial agreement which, by its terms, barred such maintenance. We hold that the award in this case may not stand.

Lenore Wheelan and John Burgess were married on September 3,...

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