(755 ILCS 5/Art. X heading)
(755 ILCS 5/10-1) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 10-1)
Sec. 10-1. Letters of administration to collect.) (a) Upon the filing of a petition of any interested person or upon its own motion, the court may issue letters of administration to collect: (1) when any contingency happens which is productive of delay in the issuance of letters of office and it appears to the court that the estate of the decedent is liable to waste, loss or embezzlement or (2) when a person is missing from his usual place of residence and cannot be located or while in military service is reported by the federal government or an agency or department thereof as missing or missing in action. In order to act as administrator to collect one must be qualified to act as an administrator under this Act.
(b) The selection of an administrator to collect for the estate of a decedent is in the discretion of the court, giving due consideration to the person named as executor in the will or, if there is no will or if no executor is named, to the preferences in Section 9-3. The selection of an administrator to collect for the estate of a missing person must be in accordance with the preferences in Section 9-3.
(Source: P.A. 79-328.)
(755 ILCS 5/10-2) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 10-2)
Sec. 10-2. Petition for letters of administration to collect.) A person desiring to have letters of administration to collect issued on the estate of a deceased or missing person must file a petition therefor in the court of the proper county. The petition must state, if known: (a) the name and place of residence of the decedent at the time of his death or the name and last known address of the missing person; (b) the time and place of the decedent's death or in the case of a missing person the facts and circumstances as to his being missing or reported as missing or missing in action; (c) the approximate value of the decedent's or missing person's real and personal estate in this State and the amount of his anticipated gross annual income from his real estate in this State; (d) in the case of a missing person, the names and post office addresses of his nearest relatives in the following order: the spouse and adult children, if any; if none, the parents and adult brothers and sisters, if any; if none, the nearest adult kindred; (e) the name and address of the person proposed as administrator to collect; and (f) the reason for the issuance of letters.
(Source: P.A. 79-328.)
(755 ILCS 5/10-3) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 10-3)
Sec. 10-3. Administrator to collect for missing person - notice.) When letters of administration to collect are sought for the estate of a missing person, the petitioner must publish a notice of the hearing on the petition once a week for 3 successive weeks, the first publication to be not less than 30 days before the hearing. The notice must state the time and place of the hearing, the name of the missing person and his last known address and the name and address of each of his relatives listed in the petition. Not less than 20 days before the hearing, the petitioner must send a copy of the petition and notice by mail to the missing person at his last known address and to each of his relatives whose name and address is listed in the petition. If it appears to the court that the estate of a missing person is liable to waste, loss or embezzlement, the court may appoint an administrator to collect for a missing person without prior notice in which event the administrator (a) must forthwith publish a notice stating that the person named was appointed administrator to collect of the estate of the missing person and that the appointment will remain in effect unless application to vacate the order is made on or before a date designated by the court, the notice to be published once a week for 3 successive weeks, the first publication to be not less than 30 days before the designated date, and (b) not less than 20 days before the designated date, shall send a copy of the petition and notice by mail to the missing person at his last known address and to each of his relatives whose name and address are listed on the petition. The notice required by this Section must be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county where the petition is filed. The petitioner or administrator, as the case may be, must file proof of mailing and publication with the clerk of the court.
(Source: P.A. 81-1453.)
(755 ILCS 5/10-4) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 10-4)
Sec. 10-4. Powers and duties of administrator to collect.) An administrator to collect has power to sue for and collect the personal estate and debts due the decedent or missing person and by leave of court to exercise the powers vested by law in an administrator. The provisions of this Act relating to the sale, mortgage and leasing of real and personal estate by resident administrators are applicable to sales, mortgages, and leasing of real and personal estate by administrators to collect. A suit commenced by an administrator to collect does not abate by the revocation of his letters either before or after judgment in the trial or reviewing court, but his successor as representative or the missing person if his survival is established, may be substituted in his stead in the proceedings. When authorized by the court, an administrator to collect of the estate of a missing person may make disbursements to or for the benefit of his spouse, his children, including children by adoption, any person to whom he stood in the acknowledged relation of a parent, any person related to him by blood or marriage who is dependent upon or entitled to support from him and anyone to whom the missing person is indebted and may perform the contracts of the missing person which were legally subsisting at the time of his disappearance and execute and deliver a deed, bill of sale or other instrument.
(Source: P.A. 79-328.)
(755 ILCS 5/10-5) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 10-5)
Sec. 10-5. Termination of powers.) On the issuance of letters testamentary or of administration or the satisfactory establishment of the survival and location of the missing person, the powers of an administrator to collect cease and his letters shall be revoked.
(Source: P.A. 79-328.)