Waterloo Illinois Attorneys > Our Blog > Family Law > $8,000,000.00 WILL AND TRUST CONTEST SETTLEMENT, BELLEVILLE, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS LAW FIRM HANDLING PROBATE AND ESTATE LITIGATION, AVAILABLE TO REPRESENT CLIENTS FROM WATERLOO, MONROE COUNTY, NASHVILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, BREESE, CLINTON COUNTY, WE REPRESENTED A SURVIVING SPOUSE WITH RESPECT TO HER PREDECEASED HUSBAND WHO BASICALLY ATTEMPTED TO DISINHERIT HER EVEN THOUGH SHE WORKED IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS FOR MORE THAN SIXTY (60) YEARS. THE COUPLE HAD NO CHILDREN. THE HUSBAND WAS CONCERNED THAT IF HE LEFT ASSETS TO HIS WIFE SHE WOULD THEN LEAVE THOSE ASSETS TO HER SIDE OF THE FAMILY ONCE SHE PASSED AWAY WHICH THE HUSBAND DID NOT WISH TO OCCUR. THERE WAS AN ALL-DAY MEDIATED SETTLEMENT IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI THAT INVOLVED NUMEROUS LAW FIRMS REPRESENTING VARIOUS PARTIES. THE RECOVERY, IN EXCESS OF $8,000,000.00, EXCEEDED THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CLIENT. OUR CLIENT WAS THEN ABLE TO LEAVE HER ESTATE, UPON HER DEATH, TO HER SIDE OF THE FAMILY, INCLUDING NIECES AND NEPHEWS, NOT TO MENTION OTHERS.
$8,000,000.00 WILL AND TRUST CONTEST SETTLEMENT, BELLEVILLE, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS LAW FIRM HANDLING PROBATE AND ESTATE LITIGATION, AVAILABLE TO REPRESENT CLIENTS FROM WATERLOO, MONROE COUNTY, NASHVILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, BREESE, CLINTON COUNTY, WE REPRESENTED A SURVIVING SPOUSE WITH RESPECT TO HER PREDECEASED HUSBAND WHO BASICALLY ATTEMPTED TO DISINHERIT HER EVEN THOUGH SHE WORKED IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS FOR MORE THAN SIXTY (60) YEARS. THE COUPLE HAD NO CHILDREN. THE HUSBAND WAS CONCERNED THAT IF HE LEFT ASSETS TO HIS WIFE SHE WOULD THEN LEAVE THOSE ASSETS TO HER SIDE OF THE FAMILY ONCE SHE PASSED AWAY WHICH THE HUSBAND DID NOT WISH TO OCCUR. THERE WAS AN ALL-DAY MEDIATED SETTLEMENT IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI THAT INVOLVED NUMEROUS LAW FIRMS REPRESENTING VARIOUS PARTIES. THE RECOVERY, IN EXCESS OF $8,000,000.00, EXCEEDED THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CLIENT. OUR CLIENT WAS THEN ABLE TO LEAVE HER ESTATE, UPON HER DEATH, TO HER SIDE OF THE FAMILY, INCLUDING NIECES AND NEPHEWS, NOT TO MENTION OTHERS.
Blake Law Group
January 13, 2021
$8,000,000.00 WILL AND TRUST CONTEST SETTLEMENT, BELLEVILLE, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS LAW FIRM HANDLING PROBATE AND ESTATE LITIGATION, AVAILABLE TO REPRESENT CLIENTS FROM WATERLOO, MONROE COUNTY, NASHVILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, BREESE, CLINTON COUNTY, WE REPRESENTED A SURVIVING SPOUSE WITH RESPECT TO HER PREDECEASED HUSBAND WHO BASICALLY ATTEMPTED TO DISINHERIT HER EVEN THOUGH SHE WORKED IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS FOR MORE THAN SIXTY (60) YEARS. THE COUPLE HAD NO CHILDREN. THE HUSBAND WAS CONCERNED THAT IF HE LEFT ASSETS TO HIS WIFE SHE WOULD THEN LEAVE THOSE ASSETS TO HER SIDE OF THE FAMILY ONCE SHE PASSED AWAY WHICH THE HUSBAND DID NOT WISH TO OCCUR. THERE WAS AN ALL-DAY MEDIATED SETTLEMENT IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI THAT INVOLVED NUMEROUS LAW FIRMS REPRESENTING VARIOUS PARTIES. THE RECOVERY, IN EXCESS OF $8,000,000.00, EXCEEDED THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CLIENT. OUR CLIENT WAS THEN ABLE TO LEAVE HER ESTATE, UPON HER DEATH, TO HER SIDE OF THE FAMILY, INCLUDING NIECES AND NEPHEWS, NOT TO MENTION OTHERS.
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