In Re Estate of Shea

Respondent, Mary Brennan, appeals an order ruling that two bank accounts, on which she was listed as a joint tenant with decedent, Robert D. Shea, belong to decedent’s estate. Her principal contention is that the court erred in making that finding when petitioner (Edward J. Shea, executor of decedent’s estate) failed to show that decedent did not intend to make a gift to respondent effective as of his death. Under Murgic v. Granite City Trust & Savings Bank, 31 Ill. 2d 587 (1964), a court must presume that when a bank account holder lists another person as a joint tenant on the account, he or…