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90_SB0465

      735 ILCS 5/12-112         from Ch. 110, par. 12-112
      765 ILCS 1005/1c          from Ch. 76, par. 1c
          Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to  exclude  from  the
      provision forbidding property held in tenancy by the entirety
      to  be sold upon judgment against one creditor, property that
      was transferred into tenancy by the entirety in violation  of
      the  Uniform  Fraudulent  Transfer  Act.    Amends  the Joint
      Tenancy Act. Provides that it is not the intent of the  Joint
      Tenancy  Act to enable a person to make a devise, conveyance,
      assignment, or  other  transfer  of  property  maintained  or
      intended  for  maintenance as a homestead by both husband and
      wife together during coverture declaring that the  devise  is
      made  to  persons,  expressly  named  as husband and wife, as
      tenants by the entirety in order to defraud a creditor.
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 1        AN ACT in relation to property, amending named Acts.
 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section  5.   The  Code  of Civil Procedure is amended by
 5    changing Section 12-112 as follows:
 6        (735 ILCS 5/12-112) (from Ch. 110, par. 12-112)
 7        Sec. 12-112.  What liable to enforcement. All the  lands,
 8    tenements, real estate, goods and chattels (except such as is
 9    by  law  declared  to be exempt) of every person against whom
10    any judgment has been or shall be hereafter  entered  in  any
11    court,  for  any debt, damages, costs, or other sum of money,
12    shall be liable to be sold  upon  such  judgment.   Any  real
13    property, or any beneficial interest in a land trust, held in
14    tenancy  by  the entirety shall not be liable to be sold upon
15    judgment entered on or after October 1, 1990 against only one
16    of the tenants, except if the property was  transferred  into
17    tenancy   by   the  entirety  in  violation  of  the  Uniform
18    Fraudulent Transfer Act.    However,  any  income  from  such
19    property  shall be subject to garnishment as provided in Part
20    7 of this Article XII,  whether  judgment  has  been  entered
21    against one or both of the tenants.
22        This  amendatory  Act  of 1995 is declarative of existing
23    law.
24    (Source: P.A. 89-88, eff. 6-30-95; 89-438, eff. 12-15-95.)
25        Section 10.  The Joint Tenancy Act is amended by changing
26    Section 1c as follows:
27        (765 ILCS 1005/1c) (from Ch. 76, par. 1c)
28        Sec. 1c.  Whenever a devise, conveyance,  assignment,  or
29    other  transfer  of property, including a beneficial interest
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 1    in a land trust, maintained or intended for maintenance as  a
 2    homestead  by both husband and wife together during coverture
 3    shall be made  and  the  instrument  of  devise,  conveyance,
 4    assignment, or transfer expressly declares that the devise or
 5    conveyance is made to persons, named and expressly identified
 6    in  that instrument as husband and wife, not as joint tenants
 7    or tenants in common but as tenants by the  entirety,  or  if
 8    the beneficial interest in a land trust is to be held by both
 9    husband  and  wife  as  tenants  by  the entirety, the estate
10    created shall be deemed to be in  tenancy  by  the  entirety.
11    Subject  to  the provisions of paragraph (d) of Section 2 and
12    unless otherwise assented to in writing by  both  tenants  by
13    the  entirety,  the  estate  in  tenancy  by  the entirety so
14    created shall exist only if, and as long as, the tenants  are
15    and  remain  married  to  each  other,  and upon the death of
16    either such tenant  the  survivor  shall  retain  the  entire
17    estate;  provided  that,  upon  a  judgment of dissolution of
18    marriage or of declaration of  invalidity  of  marriage,  the
19    estate shall, by operation of law, become a tenancy in common
20    until  and  unless  the  court  directs  otherwise;  provided
21    further  that the estate shall, by operation of law, become a
22    joint tenancy upon  the  creation  and  maintenance  by  both
23    spouses together of other property as a homestead.  A devise,
24    conveyance,  assignment,  or other transfer to 2 grantees who
25    are not in fact husband and wife that purports to  create  an
26    estate  by  the entirety shall be construed as having created
27    an estate in joint tenancy.  An  estate  in  tenancy  by  the
28    entirety  may  be  created  notwithstanding  the  fact that a
29    grantor is or the grantors are also named as a grantee or the
30    grantees in a deed.  No deed, contract for deed, mortgage, or
31    lease of homestead property held in tenancy by  the  entirety
32    shall  be  effective  unless  signed  by  both tenants.  This
33    Section shall not apply to nor operate to change  the  effect
34    of any devise or conveyance.
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 1        Nothing  in  this  Section  shall be construed nor was it
 2    ever the intent of the General Assembly that this Section  be
 3    construed  to  enable  a person to make a devise, conveyance,
 4    assignment, or  other  transfer  of  property  maintained  or
 5    intended  for  maintenance as a homestead by both husband and
 6    wife together during coverture declaring that the  devise  or
 7    conveyance is made to persons, named and expressly identified
 8    as  husband  and wife, as tenants by the entirety in order to
 9    defraud a creditor as provided in Section 5  of  the  Uniform
10    Fraudulent Transfer Act.
11        This  amendatory  Act  of 1995 is declarative of existing
12    law.
13    (Source: P.A. 89-88, eff. 6-30-95; 89-438, eff. 12-15-95.)

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