{"id":7539,"date":"2019-12-05T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:26:32","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-finds-that-an-inadmissible-will-by-decedents-clear-intent-revokes-earlier-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-finds-that-an-inadmissible-will-by-decedents-clear-intent-revokes-earlier-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Finds That an Inadmissible Will by Decedent\u2019s Clear Intent Revokes Earlier Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Oleksiuk\u2019s legacy included an intricate probate puzzle. His 2012 will revoked his 2011 will.\u00a0 He died in 2014 before finalizing a revision to a 2012 will. However, on June 9, 2017, a Cook County judge ruled that the 2012 will didn\u2019t qualify for admission to probate because it wasn\u2019t notarized.<\/p>\n<p>Inasmuch as the petitioners, Oleksiuk\u2019s sister and nephew, could not find an original copy of the 2011 will, they tried again, petitioning for admission of a copy of the 2011 will.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking the second petition, with a combined motion to dismiss based on Sections 2-615 and 2-619 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2017&amp;ChapterID=56\">Illinois Code of Civil Procedure<\/a>, his widow, Irena Oleksiuk, argued that the revocation clause in the defective 2012 will blocked the petitioners from rebutting the presumption that he intended to revoke the missing 2011 will.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-finds-that-an-inadmissible-will-by-decedents-clear-intent-revokes-earlier-will\/#more-7539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Oleksiuk\u2019s legacy included an intricate probate puzzle. His 2012 will revoked his 2011 will.\u00a0 He died in 2014 before finalizing a revision to a 2012 will. However, on June 9, 2017, a Cook County judge ruled that the 2012 will didn\u2019t qualify for admission to probate because it wasn\u2019t notarized. Inasmuch as the petitioners, [&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":[22,59,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois-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 Finds That an Inadmissible Will by Decedent\u2019s Clear Intent Revokes Earlier Will &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paul Oleksiuk\u2019s legacy included an intricate probate puzzle. 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