(755 ILCS 5/7-6) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 7-6)
Sec. 7-6.
Disposition of personal estate of nonresident decedent.) If a
nonresident decedent who is a citizen of the United States or a citizen or subject
of a foreign country, provides in his will that the testamentary
disposition of tangible or intangible personal estate having a situs within this
State as defined in Section 5-2, is to be construed and regulated by the laws of
this State, the validity and effect of such disposition shall be determined
by such laws.
In respect of a nonresident decedent's tangible or intangible personal estate having
a situs within this State, as defined in Section 5-2, the court may
direct and, in the case of a decedent who was at the time of his death a resident
of a foreign country, shall direct the representative appointed in this State to make
distribution directly to those designated by the decedent's will as beneficiaries
of the tangible or intangible personal estate or to the persons entitled to
receive the decedent's personal estate under the laws of the decedent's
domicile, as the
case may be.
(Source: P.A. 79-328.)
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