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Beneficiary Can Sue Attorney for Estate Planning Negligence
The Illinois Supreme Court has ensured that beneficiaries financially harmed by an estate planning attorney's negligence will have the ability to sue.
The decision allows the beneficiary to seek compensation for the malpractice that resulted in unnecessary estate/death taxes of $240,000.
The Supreme Court reversed a lower court that effectively had taken that right away by ruling that such negligence claims automatically were barred six years from the date of the negligent advice, regardless of when the beneficiary's mother, the decedent, had died.
(Editor's note: The beneficiary was represented by Henry Novoselsky, a law partner of the sponsor of this website.)
Source: Business Wire, January 29, 2002
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