Presented by the ISBA Trusts & Estates Law Section
Live Webcast
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
2:00 – 3:05 p.m.
1.0 hour MCLE credit
Probate “pitfalls” are inevitable, and no two cases are alike. Learn how to manage or avoid common pitfalls in Illinois probate proceedings for decedents’ estates with this informative online seminar. Estate administration practitioners, Civil practice attorneys, and elder law attorneys with basic to intermediate practice experience who attend this online program will also learn:
- Practical problem-solving solutions when unavoidable probate pitfalls arise;
- Filing requirements and procedures, and Cook County nuances;
- How to handle:
- When a named Executor Declines to Serve - Who can Serve Thereafter?
- Failure to Send Timely Notice
- Preservation of Assets
- Insolvent Estates and Abatement of Claims
- Distributing Unclaimed Property to the Illinois Treasurer
- Unknown Heirs and/or Legatees
- Post-deceased Estate Representative or Post-deceased Heirs/Legatees
- Nonresident Representatives
- When a Trust is a Legatee
- Family Dynamics and Conflicts
- Ademption
- Recalcitrant Heirs/Legatees
- The Caregiver Statute
- When to use a Notice of Probate and Release of Estate’s Interest in Real Estate
- When Beneficiaries want to Rearrange Who Inherits What
- When you Opened Probate by Mistake – Now What?
Colleen L. Sahlas, Law Offices of Hoy & Sahlas, LLC, Oak Brook
Program Chat Moderator:
Melissa Johnson, Generation Law, Elmhust
Program Speakers:
Sarah M. LeRose, Leonard J. LeRose, Jr., Ltd., Chicago
Colleen L. Sahlas, Law Offices of Hoy & Sahlas, LLC, Oak Brook
Original source can be found here.