In Re Estate of Meyers

Bertha Meyers, administrator of the estate of Gerald Meyers, deceased, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Lake County which directed her to distribute a total of $6,000 to four of the deceased’s five children. On appeal, she contends that this order, which on its face ordered payment of a child’s award, in fact gave impermissible preferential treatment to an order which had been entered, subsequent to the death of the decedent, in dissolution of marriage proceedings pending in the circuit court of Cook County for the payment of the children’s educational expenses.

The deceased,…