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Case Studies
- Lakelaw has been representing a young woman whose husband’s untimely death has left her in charge of a substantial business. In addition to handling all aspects of probate administration, we have assisted her in real estate sales and refinancing, business evaluation, business brokerage as well as all tax aspects of the probate estate.
- Lakelaw was upon to stop a foreclosure against a home owned by a decedent where the mortgage lender failed to give notice to the nominated executor, even though the will was on file. Now we have assisted her in selling the house, locating the decedent’s assets, and liquidating and preserving an estate where none was anticipated.
- Lakelaw represented three adult acknowledged but not legitimate children of a decedent in a contested probate proceeding against the legitimate children of the decedent. We overcame questions of paternity using all modern scientific methods, including DNA testing, to establish the rights of our clients as heirs.
- Lakelaw represented two adult children of a decedent in a contested probate proceeding against the decedent’s second husband. The decedent’s husband claimed all rights to the decedent estate until his death whereas the decedent’s trust, drawn by the husband’s attorney, provided for a vested share of the trust to be paid immediately to the children. We forced the Estate to sell the property and the daughters now have recovered their rightful inheritance
David Leibowitz has also been honored to be selected as a fiduciary (executor or trustee) in many of his clients' estate plans. His experience as a bankruptcy trustee has given him excellent experience to fulfill this important and vital fiduciary obligation.
Sharanya Gururajan has developed knowledge and experience in probate administration, particularly in contested probate matters, both in Lake County and Cook County, Illinois.
Carrie Zuniga devotes substantially all of her attention to estate planning in Illinois after having received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois School of Law and having taken a substantial concentration of course work in estate planning and estate taxation matters.
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