Illinois Elder Law Survey

Charles A. LeFebvre (attorney, Illinois) and Martin W. Siemer (attorney, Illinois) have published their article entitled Survey of Illinois Law: Elder Law, 33 S. Ill. U. L.J. 599 (2010). 

The introduction to the article is below:

Each year, it seems that new cases and statutes of relevance to the Elder Law practitioner arrive in force. The year this article was written, 2008, is no different. There are cases of significance, statutory amendments (though very few for the year and none that will be discussed here), and general updates of interest.

Now, almost three years after the passage of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA), Illinois continues to be one of the minority of states that has not implemented the DRA. Illinois Elder Law practitioners are still left to wonder how to best plan for clients in the face of unknown rules coming down at an unknown time with unknown consequences. Time will tell whether the 2010 Survey of Illinois Law for Elder Law is to be devoted to Illinois’ DRA implementation.

The materials here are organized with a desk reference of numbers and statistics for use in 2009 included in Section II. Published decisions handed down in 2008 are summarized in Section III.