In Re Estate of Yucis

Madeleine M. Ward is a daughter and legatee of Elvige Staehle Yucis, who died on April 21, 2003. A Du Page County court convicted Ward of theft from Yucis and ordered Ward to pay restitution of $320,000 to Yucis’s estate. In the probate case, Craig J. Cobine, the executor of the estate, brought a citation proceeding against Ward’s former fiancé, Cyrus Mead IV Cobine alleged that Mead had control of property of Ward’s and that Ward was indebted to the estate under the restitution judgment. The probate court ordered Mead to give Ward’s personal property to the sheriff for sale and allowed Mead…