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Successor Judge Recommends Reversal of Adjudication by Retired Judge

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Daniel EvansApril 13, 2025

The agent for the deceased principal filed an account that showed the same rounded expenses each month, the agent failed to comply with discovery orders to provide financial records, and the agent failed to appear at the hearing on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Accounting by agent, Discovery, Standing

Calculation of Contingent Fee in Will Contest

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Daniel EvansDecember 29, 2024

In an action by a lawyer for the collection from an estate of contingent fees owed by the heirs for representation in a will contest, the heirs had standing to appeal from the decisions of the Orphans’ Court but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Contingent fees, Standing

Historical Society Lacked Standing on Museum’s Petition to Deviate

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Daniel EvansDecember 23, 2024

An historical society which had donated artifacts to a museum with rights to notice of any sale of the artifacts, a share of any proceeds of sale of any artifact, and an acknowledgement of its former ownership, did not have … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Charitable organizations, Standing

Cotrustee’s Petition to Partition Denied

Posted on August 19, 2024 by Daniel EvansAugust 19, 2024

The current beneficiary and individual cotrustee of a trust holding a partial interest in a family farm, had petitioned the Orphans’ Court to allow him to file a partition action without the consent or joinder of the institutional cotrustee. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Best interests of beneficiaries, Conflict of interest, Partition, Standing, Trustee disagreement

Nephews Lacked Standing on Guardianship Expenses

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Daniel EvansNovember 24, 2024

The nephews of the incapacitated person had no standing to challenge the counsel fees and commissions claimed by the guardian of the estate when their father (the incapacitated person’s brother) was still living and their only interest in the incapacitated … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Counsel fees and costs, Standing

Transferee of Property Had Standing to Challenge Will

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Daniel EvansOctober 27, 2024

The decedent’s granddaughter, who was not a beneficiary under the contested will and was not an intestate heir because her mother (the decedent’s daughter) was still living, had standing to challenge the will offered for probate by her mother because … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Forgery, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Standing, Will forgery

Dismissal of Answer and New Matter for Lack of Standing Is Not Appealable

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Daniel EvansMarch 26, 2024

In an action relating to the account of a trustee of an irrrevocable trust and the approval of a settlement agreement, the order of the Orphans’ Court sustaining preliminary objections to an answer and new matter filed by the settlor … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Appealability, Standing

Earlier Will Also Disinherited Contestant

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Daniel EvansMarch 25, 2024

The Register of Wills had jurisdiction to probate the will of a decedent who was not a resident of Pennsylvania because the decedent owned real estate in the Register’s county, but a contestant to a will lacks standing when an … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Jurisdiction, Register of Wills, Standing

Dismissal of Answer and New Matter Is Not Appealable

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Daniel EvansMarch 26, 2024

In an action relating to the appointment of a trustee and change of situs of an irrevocable trust, the order of the Orphans’ Court sustaining preliminary objections to an answer and new matter filed by the settlor of the trust, … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Appealability, Standing

Daughter Waited Too Long to Challenge Gifts

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Daniel EvansFebruary 5, 2024

The petition filed by a daughter challenging the gifts made to the other daughter four years before the mother was adjudicated incapacitated was denied because: (a) The lawyer who had represented and advised the incapacitated person (IP) in 2011 and … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinions | Tagged Confidential relationship, Judicial notice, laches, Standing

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