{"id":4017,"date":"2014-08-06T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2014-08-03T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:50:18","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-holds-witness-recollection-testators-signature-time-will-signed-evidence-invalidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-holds-witness-recollection-testators-signature-time-will-signed-evidence-invalidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Holds That Witness\u2019s Recollection of Testator\u2019s Signature at the Time Will is Signed Not Evidence of Invalidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Dicks died on Sept. 25, 2012. Her granddaughter, Jennifer Barber, was her closest living relative and her only heir. Barber claimed that Dicks died intestate and filed a petition to be named administrator of her estate.<\/p>\n<p>However, Allison Ferconio, who was Dicks\u2019s niece, filed a will with the Circuit Court. The will was dated May 23, 2012 naming Ferconio as executor and left Dicks\u2019s estate to six individuals. On that list was Ferconio, but not Barber. The will was signed and witnessed by Richard Tebik and Robert Abraham who signed a standard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attestation_clause\">attestation clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attestation clause indicated that the will was signed in the presence of each of the two witnesses. There was a second attestation clause, claiming that Dicks signed the document as her will and acknowledged her signature in the presence of both witnesses. The court admitted the will and named Ferconio as her executor. Barber filed a request for a formal proof of will seeking the testimony of Tebik and Abraham.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-holds-witness-recollection-testators-signature-time-will-signed-evidence-invalidity\/#more-4017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Dicks died on Sept. 25, 2012. Her granddaughter, Jennifer Barber, was her closest living relative and her only heir. Barber claimed that Dicks died intestate and filed a petition to be named administrator of her estate. However, Allison Ferconio, who was Dicks\u2019s niece, filed a will with the Circuit Court. The will was dated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,46,59,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-civil-procedure","category-probate-litigation","category-wills-trusts-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Holds That Witness\u2019s Recollection of Testator\u2019s Signature at the Time Will is Signed Not Evidence of Invalidity  &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mary Dicks died on Sept. 25, 2012. 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