Posted on 09/26/2009 8:08:39 AM PDT by Jabrown
...This stipulation would become known as the "Jewish Clause".
Erla, who wholly supported her husband's beliefs, would take this stipulation a step further in exercising control over her half of the estate. Upon her death in 2003, she bequeathed $250,000 to a single grandchild who married within the faith and left nothing to her four other grandchildren. As a result, Michele Feinberg Trull, a disinherited granddaughter launched a lawsuit against the trust claiming that the trusts violated the law by offering money to practice a particular religion.
After losing early court battles, Trull pushed the lawsuit all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court, who unanimously upheld the right of individuals to...
Illinois Supreme Court upholds right to discriminate against heirs
right ruling
Good decision. Courts should have very little ability to change wills.
Illinois got something right.
A will isn't offering money to anybody. The word "will" means just that, the last WILL and testament, what the person who owned the estate wants done with it after they die, their last will. Most courts have upheld wills through out our history. This was a good ruling.
The ridiculous lawsuit by the disinherited heirs should NEVER have been heard in the first place. It should have been thrown out in pretrial for its frivolity.
I can’t imagine a more entitled, selfish grand daughter. I wonder what this law suit cost her.
A person should have the right to do with their money anything they want, for whatever reason they personally want. This granddaughter is greedy and she showed one of the reasons why her grandmother left her out of her will.
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