(720 ILCS 5/32-12)
Sec. 32-12.
Maintenance.
If a person
officiously intermeddles in an action that in
no way belongs to or concerns that person, by maintaining or
assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend the
action, with a view to promote litigation, he or she is guilty of maintenance
and upon conviction shall be
fined and punished as in cases of common barratry. It
is not maintenance for a person to maintain the
action of his or her relative or servant, or a poor person out of
charity.
(Source: P.A. 89-234, eff. 1-1-96.)
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