In Re Estate of Hopkins

PRESIDING JUSTICE LINDBERG

delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, Nancy L. Hopkins, filed a petition in the circuit court to set aside an antenuptial agreement between her and her deceased husband, Thomas Hopkins (Thomas). Terri-Beth Brown, executor of the estate of Thomas Hopkins, filed a motion to dismiss the petition. The court granted Brown’s motion, and petitioner appeals, contending that her petition set forth sufficient facts to state a cause of action to void the agreement.

Petitioner and the decedent married on April 17, 1982. The day before, April 16, they had signed an…