Prior Charging Order Trumps Later Divorce Court Order Involving Restaurant LLC Payouts

The Third District Appellate Court answers some important questions concerning the priority of competing creditors’ rights in the assets of a common debtor and the nature of appellate jurisdiction in FirstMerit Bank v. McEnery, 2014 IL App (3d) 130231-U. There, a creditor obtained a $1.8M judgment against a defendant who had interests in several restaurant LLC ventures (the …