In a unanimous decision, the Illinois Appellate Court (Second District) affirmed a trial court’s award of summary judgment to a Berger Schatz client, classifying as non-marital the client’s shares in a family business worth tens of millions of dollars, which were acquired before the marriage. Prevailing in a complex and unresolved area of Illinois law, Berger Schatz attorneys Barry A. Schatz, Dina Warner, and Brian J. Blitz also won affirmance from the Appellate Court regarding the trial court’s determination that the retained earnings from that business was non-marital, and that funds used to purchase some of the client’s shares in that company, as well as other companies, during the marriage had not been commingled with marital funds merely because they were deposited temporarily in marital bank accounts. To read the Appellate Court’s decision, click here.