Illinois Compiled Statutes 755 ILCS 5 Probate Act of 1975. Section 23-2

    (755 ILCS 5/23-2) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 23-2)

    Sec. 23-2. Removal.

    (a) On petition of any interested person or on the court's own motion, the court may remove a representative if:

        (1) the representative is acting under letters

    secured by false pretenses;

        (2) the representative is adjudged a person subject

    to involuntary admission under the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code or is adjudged a disabled person;

        (3) the representative is convicted of a felony;

        (4) the representative wastes or mismanages the

    estate;

        (5) the representative conducts himself or herself in

    such a manner as to endanger any co-representative or the surety on the representative's bond;

        (6) the representative fails to give sufficient bond

    or security, counter security or a new bond, after being ordered by the court to do so;

        (7) the representative fails to file an inventory or

    accounting after being ordered by the court to do so;

        (8) the representative conceals himself or herself so

    that process cannot be served upon the representative or notice cannot be given to the representative;

        (9) the representative becomes incapable of or

    unsuitable for the discharge of the representative's duties; or

        (10) there is other good cause.

    (b) If the representative becomes a nonresident of the United States, the court may remove the representative as such representative.

(Source: P.A. 90-430, eff. 8-16-97; 90-472, eff. 8-17-97; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

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