Defendant Bank Not Liable for Permitting Judgment Debtor to Transfer Over $700,000 from Accounts

The Citation to Discover Assets to a Third Party or “third-party citation”  allows a judgment creditor to serve a citation on a third-party –  a bank, for instance – who holds property of the judgment debtor and attach that property until the court orders the property released.  See 735 ILCS 5/2-1402(f)(1).  The third-party citation prohibits the citation …

Judgments By Confession: How to Open (Not Vacate) Them (IL Law)

The two key rules that govern challenging  a confessed judgment in Illinois are Supreme Court Rule 276 and  Code Section 2-1301 (735 ILCS 5/2-1301).  The latter provides that “any person for a debt bona fide due may confess judgment by himself or herself or attorney duly authorized, without process” and that the “application to confess judgment shall …