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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Probate Act of 1975 is amended by changing
5Section 18-10 as follows:
 
6    (755 ILCS 5/18-10)  (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 18-10)
7    Sec. 18-10. Classification of claims against decedent's
8estate. All claims against the estate of a decedent are divided
9into classes in the manner following:
10    1st: Funeral and burial expenses, expenses of
11administration, and statutory custodial claims. For the
12purposes of this paragraph, funeral and burial expenses paid by
13any person, including a surviving spouse, are funeral and
14burial expenses; and funeral and burial expenses include
15reasonable amounts paid for a burial space, crypt or niche, a
16marker on the burial space, care of the burial space, crypt or
17niche, and interest on these amounts. Interest on these amounts
18shall accrue beginning 60 days after issuance of letters of
19office to the representative of the decedent's estate, or if no
20such letters of office are issued, then beginning 60 days after
21those amounts are due, up to the rate of 9% per annum as
22allowed by contract or law.
23    2nd: The surviving spouse's or child's award.

 

 

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1    3rd: Debts due the United States.
2    4th: Reasonable and necessary medical, hospital, and
3nursing home expenses for the care of the decedent during the
4year immediately preceding death; and money Money due employees
5of the decedent of not more than $800 for each claimant for
6services rendered within 4 months prior to the decedent's death
7and expenses attending the last illness.
8    5th: Money and property received or held in trust by
9decedent which cannot be identified or traced.
10    6th: Debts due this State and any county, township, city,
11town, village or school district located within this State.
12    7th: All other claims.
13(Source: P.A. 87-509.)
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.