Testamentary Direction to Employ Wife Was Unenforceable

The Orphans’ Court had jurisdiction in a dispute over a provision in a will directing that the testator’s wife “remain on the payroll” of a corporation he controlled, and the dispute did not become moot by reason of the wife’s death during the litigation, but the direction was unenforceable because the gifts of the testator’s stock in the corporation were unconditional and so the direction was precatory, and because a shareholder cannot dictate the policies of a corporation by will. In re: Estate of Kenneth C. Haugh, Deceased, 163 MDA 2023 (Pa. Super. 11/4/2024) (non-precedential).

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