In Re Estate of Nakaerts

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Patricia Nakaerts, widow of decedent Myron Nakaerts, filed petitions in the circuit court of Iroquois County requesting an award as surviving spouse, seeking to renounce decedent’s will and to take the widow’s intestate share, requesting a surviving child’s award on behalf of her minor son, Lindy Matthew Nakaerts, and asking for unpaid alimony and child support pursuant to a temporary order entered in a marriage dissolution proceeding prior to decedent’s death. After an extensive hearing, the trial court awarded $2,752 as unpaid…