{"data":{"id":"us-il/755-ilcs-5-4a-5","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"755 ILCS 5/4a-5","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this Article:\n(1) \"Caregiver\" means a person who voluntarily, or in exchange for compensation, has assumed responsibility for all or a portion of the care of another person who needs assistance with activities of daily living. \"Caregiver\" includes a caregiver's spouse, cohabitant, child, or employee. \"Caregiver\" does not include a family member of the person receiving assistance.\n(2) \"Family member\" means a spouse, civil union partner, child, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, first cousin, or parent of the person receiving assistance.\n(3) \"Transfer instrument\" means the legal document intended to effectuate a transfer effective on or after the transferor's death and includes, without limitation, a will, trust, transfer on death instrument, deed, form designated as payable on death, contract, or other beneficiary designation form.\n(4) \"Transferee\" means a legatee, a beneficiary of a trust, a grantee of a deed, or any other person designated in a transfer instrument to receive a nonprobate transfer.\n(5) \"Transferor\" means a testator, settlor, grantor of a deed, or a decedent whose interest is transferred pursuant to a nonprobate transfer.","path":["CHAPTER 755 ESTATES","Probate Act of 1975."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=2104\u0026ChapterID=60\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:44Z","sha256":"25010bb5861fb65e9429ec5ef53382b0424fa719ba54fe835187713f1dc88ca4","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/755-ilcs-5-4-15","next":"us-il/755-ilcs-5-4a-10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}