AMAZING RESULT! WE REPRESENTED A CLIENT WHERE THERE WAS A SECOND MARRIAGE TO A WEALTHY HEIR FROM A BANKING DYNASTY. AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE, THE HUSBAND HAD ABOUT $16,000,000.00 AND THE WIFE WAS JUST GETTING BY FINANCIALLY, ATTEMPTING TO RAISE HER CHILDREN ON A MODEST INCOME. ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT INVOLVED, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE TRANSFERRED, SOMETIMES BY GIFTS UNDER QUESTIONABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, SUCH THAT WHEN THE HUSBAND PASSED AWAY HIS HEIRS CLAIMED FOUL PLAY IN REGARD TO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THEY CLAIMED WERE MISSING. WE REPRESENTED THE WIFE. THE WIFE AND HER CHILDREN ENDED UP KEEPING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THEY RECEIVED DURING LIFETIME OF THE HUSBAND FROM THE SECOND MARRIAGE AND THE CASE WAS RESOLVED THROUGH A MEDIATED SETTLEMENT WITHOUT DEPOSITIONS AND WITHOUT A TRIAL. PROBATE LITIGATION LAW FIRM, WILL AND TRUST CONTEST ATTORNEY, AVAILABLE TO REPRESENT CLIENTS FROM THE BLOOMINGTON, MCLEAN COUNTY, ILLINOIS CIRCUIT.
Blake Law Group
August 15, 2019
AMAZING RESULT! WE REPRESENTED A CLIENT WHERE THERE WAS A SECOND MARRIAGE TO A WEALTHY HEIR FROM A BANKING DYNASTY. AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE, THE HUSBAND HAD ABOUT $16,000,000.00 AND THE WIFE WAS JUST GETTING BY FINANCIALLY, ATTEMPTING TO RAISE HER CHILDREN ON A MODEST INCOME. ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT INVOLVED, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE TRANSFERRED, SOMETIMES BY GIFTS UNDER QUESTIONABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, SUCH THAT WHEN THE HUSBAND PASSED AWAY HIS HEIRS CLAIMED FOUL PLAY IN REGARD TO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THEY CLAIMED WERE MISSING. WE REPRESENTED THE WIFE. THE WIFE AND HER CHILDREN ENDED UP KEEPING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THEY RECEIVED DURING LIFETIME OF THE HUSBAND FROM THE SECOND MARRIAGE AND THE CASE WAS RESOLVED THROUGH A MEDIATED SETTLEMENT WITHOUT DEPOSITIONS AND WITHOUT A TRIAL. PROBATE LITIGATION LAW FIRM, WILL AND TRUST CONTEST ATTORNEY, AVAILABLE TO REPRESENT CLIENTS FROM THE BLOOMINGTON, MCLEAN COUNTY, ILLINOIS CIRCUIT.
HEIRS OF THE PREDECEASING HUSBAND FROM THE BANKING DYNASTY CLAIMED ISSUES INVOLVING DURESS, LACK OF MENTAL CAPACITY, UNDER INFLUENCE, AND TORTUOUS INTERFERENCE WITH AN INHERITANCE EXPECTANCY. THE HUSBAND HAD DECLINING HEALTH AND THE HEIRS OF THE PREDECEASING HUSBAND CLAIMING THAT THE WIFE, IF NOT ALSO HER CHILDREN, TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION AND STEERED THE HUSBAND INTO A VARIETY OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS, INCLUDING SUBSTANTIAL GIFTS INVOLVING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, AT A TIME WHEN HE WAS VULNERABLE.
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