Hammer v. People Ex Rel. Madigan

PRESIDING JUSTICE KNECHT

delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Justices Turner and Pope concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

In April 2008, petitioner David W. Hammer was appointed independent executor of decedent Ronald D. Weeks’s estate. Hammer hired petitioner Thomas L. Brucker to serve as his attorney with respect to administering the estate. In their final accounting of the estate, petitioners indicated they had withdrawn fees from the estate in the amount of $120,000 for executor Hammer and over $170,000 for attorney Brucker. Intervenor, the Attorney General of…