Appellate Court of Illinois

An order directing an insurance company to pay the proceeds of a life insurance policy to the plaintiff instead of decedent's and plaintiff's children in accordance to the marital settlement agreement which required the deceased to change the policy's beneficiary from the plaintiff to the children is reversed and remanded where the language of the marriage settlement agreement is ambiguous and susceptible to two different interpretations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2007
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• Presiding Justice LYTTON delivered the Opinion of the court:

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard F. Egan, Costello, McMahon & Burke, Ltd., Chicago, for Lisa Hintzsche., Robert F. Kramer, Plainfield, for Colleen Allton.