Ennenga v. Starns

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

This case involves claims of legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty stemming from a dispute about an inheritance. Not normally the subject of federal litigation, the case is in federal court based on the parties’ diverse citizenship. Tom and Ida Lou Ennenga lived in rural northern Illinois and had three children — Constance (known as “Connie”), Lucie, and George— and an estate valued at $3 or $4 million. Connie and Lucie each had three children; George had one child, a daughter named India. In 2000 Tom and Ida Lou revised their estate plan with the assistance of…