Estate of Michalak v. Robert

PRESIDING JUSTICE TOOMIN

delivered the opinion of the court:

In the instant appeal we consider whether the probate court’s order amending a disabled ward’s revocable trust was against the manifest weight of the evidence. Robert and Jolanta Kaleta appeal from an order granting Jacqueline Zagorski’s petition to amend Bozenna Michalak’s trust to remove the Kaletas and replace Zagorski as the successor trustee and contingent beneficiary under the trust. The Kaletas maintain that section 11a — 18(a—5) of the Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/11a — 18(a—5) (West 2008)) does not allow amendment of a…