In re Estate of Feinberg

              THIRD DIVISION
JUNE 30, 2008
1-06-2823)
1-06-2824)
1-06-2843) Cons.
In re ESTATE OF MAX FEINBERG, ) Appeal from the
) Circuit Court of
Deceased. ) Cook County.
)
(Leila R. Taylor, as Independent Coexecutor of the Will of )
Max Feinberg, Deceased, ))
Plaintiff-Appellant, )) v. ))
Nos. 05 P 0173
Michael B. Feinberg, Individually and as Coexecutor of ) 04 P 5093
the Will of Max Feinberg, Deceased; Fifth Third Bank, as ) 04 L 07195
Trustee under the Trusts of Max Feinberg, Deceased; Michele )
Trull, neé Feinberg, Aron Feinberg, Lisa Taylor-Schroeder; )
Jon Taylor, Aimee Taylor-Severe; and The Unknown or Unborn )
Descendants of Leila R. Taylor, Michael B. Feinberg, Michele )
Trull neé Feinberg, Lisa Taylor-Schroeder, Jon Taylor, and )
Aimee Taylor-Severe; and The Known Descendants of Lisa )
Taylor-Schroeder, Jon Taylor, and Aimee Taylor-Severe, ) Honorable
) Susan H. Coleman,
Defendants-Appellees). ) Judge Presiding.
JUSTICE CUNNINGHAM delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an interlocutory appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County striking
down the testamentary provision that presents the following question. Can an Illinois court enforce
a testamentary provision that any of the testator’s grandchildren who marry outside the Jewish faith,