IN RE ESTATE OF WEEKS

No. 4-10-0338.

950 N.E.2d 280 (2011)

409 Ill. App.3d 1101

In re the ESTATE OF Ronald D. WEEKS, Deceased, David W. Hammer, Independent Executor of the Estate of Ronald D. Weeks; and Thomas L. Brucker, Petitioners-Appellants, v. The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Intervenor-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

May 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Brucker (argued), Weeks & Brucker, Ltd., Fairbury, for Ronald D. Weeks.

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, State of Illinois, Michael A. Scodro , Solicitor General, Mary E. Welsh (argued), Assistant Attorney General, for Lisa Madigan.


OPINION

Presiding Justice KNECHT delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

In April 2008, petitioner, David W. Hammer, was appointed independent executor of decedent Ronald D. Weeks's estate. Hammer hired petitioner, Thomas L. Brucker, to serve as his attorney with respect to administering the estate. In their final accounting of the estate, petitioners indicated they had withdrawn fees from the estate in the amount of $120,000 for executor Hammer...

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