Estate of Knight v. Knight

PRESIDING JUSTICE CERDA

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court awarding attorney fees for a previous suit to construe a will and administrator fees. The petitioner, the estate of Arthur B. Knight, deceased, filed a petition asking the circuit court to assess administrator fees, deny attorney fees for appellate work in the previous litigation, and to tax the administrator for appeal costs incurred in the previous litigation. The petitioner contends that the trial court erred in awarding attorney fees because such fees are not to be borne by the…