Public Act 100-1079
 
SB3120 EnrolledLRB100 19566 JLS 34834 b


  
    AN ACT concerning civil law.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Probate Act of 1975 is amended  by changing 
Section 18-10 as follows:
 



    (755 ILCS 5/18-10)  (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 18-10)



    Sec. 18-10. Classification of claims against decedent's 
estate. All
claims against the estate of a decedent are divided 
into classes in the
manner following:

    1st: Funeral and burial expenses, expenses of 
administration, and
statutory custodial claims. For the 
purposes of this paragraph, funeral and
burial expenses paid by 
any person, including a surviving spouse, are
funeral and 
burial expenses; and funeral and burial expenses include

reasonable amounts paid for a burial space, crypt or niche, a 
marker on the
burial space, care of the burial space, crypt or 
niche, and interest on
these amounts. Interest on these amounts 
shall accrue beginning 60 days
after issuance of letters of 
office to the representative of the decedent's
estate, or if no 
such letters of office are issued, then beginning 60 days
after 
those amounts are due, up to the rate of 9% per annum as 
allowed by
contract or law.

    2nd: The surviving spouse's or child's award.

    3rd: Debts due the United States.

    4th: Reasonable and necessary medical, hospital, and 
nursing home expenses for the care of the decedent during the 
year immediately preceding death; and money Money due employees 
of the decedent of not more than $800 for each
claimant for 
services rendered within 4 months prior to the decedent's
death 
and expenses attending the last illness.

    5th: Money and property received or held in trust by 
decedent which
cannot be identified or traced.

    6th: Debts due this State and any county, township, city, 
town, village
or school district located within this State.

    7th: All other claims.

(Source: P.A. 87-509.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law. 
  


Effective Date:  8/24/2018