News: Floyd Perkins Quoted in Zorn's Chicago Tribune Column

Floyd D. Perkins was quoted in Eric Zorn's Chicago Tribune column regarding missing adventurer Steve Fossett and his wife's hopes of declaring him legally dead, despite a standard seven-year wait.

"Seven years is simply the line in Illinois after which the basic presumption changes," said Floyd Perkins, a former Illinois assistant attorney general who worked the estate angle in the case of candy heiress Helen Brach, who disappeared in 1977. "Before seven years, anyone who wants you declared legally dead has to offer evidence that you're not alive. But after you've been missing seven years, anyone who wants you declared alive has to offer evidence that you're not dead."

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