IN RE ESTATE OF WATTS

No. 1-21-0521.

193 N.E.3d 848 (2022)

2022 IL App (1st) 210521

IN RE ESTATE OF Ralph WATTS, an Alleged Person With a Disability, (Metropolitan Family Services: Adult Protective Services, Petitioner, v. Ralph Watts, Respondent, (Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services, Appellant; Hoogendoorn & Talbot LLP, Appellee)).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, SIXTH DIVISION.

Filed January 7, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott C. Solberg , of Eimer Stahl LLP, and Loren Gutierrez , Brian Oltman , and Emma Garl Smith , of Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services, both of Chicago, for appellant.

Meghan Terry Davis and Richard D. Boonstra , of Hoogendoorn & Talbot LLP, of Chicago, for appellee.


OPINION

¶ 1 This appeal addresses the circuit court's authority to award fees to a guardian ad litem (GAL) appointed to represent the interests of a disabled adult in a guardianship proceeding. Meghan Terry Davis of the appellee law firm Hoogendoorn & Talbot...

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