Will Was Not Irrevocable Contract, Panel Says In Rejecting Hebrew School’s Claim

(September 17, 2018, 9:18 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois appeals panel on Sept. 13 affirmed a lower court’s finding that a 1983 will lacked the usual characteristics of a joint and mutual will and also failed to include any language that indicated that a husband and wife intended it to be an irrevocable contract, rejecting a claimant’s contention that the wife breached a contract with her husband by not providing for its Hebrew school in her 2004 will (In re Estate of Alma M. Zivin, No. 17-2883, Ill. App., 4th Dist., 4th Div., 2018 Ill. App. LEXIS 661)....

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