{"id":10041,"date":"2023-10-09T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2023-10-16T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:44:09","slug":"ground-for-divorce-not-established-without-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10041","title":{"rendered":"Grounds for Divorce Not Established Without Affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When one spouse has filed for divorce, alleging that the marriage is irretrievably broken, and the other spouse fails to file an answer and dies before any judgment is entered, the grounds for divorce have not been established within the meaning 23 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 3323(g)(3) if no affidavit has been filed that complies with section 23 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 3301(d), and judicial estoppel does not apply even though a petition for special relief alleged that &#8220;grounds here have been established&#8221; because the petition did not allege facts necessary to 3301(d), so the divorce action was discontinued and the rights of the parties were to be determined under the Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code.  <em>Shell v. Estate of Shell<\/em>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A19034-23o%20-%20105689594241195178.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2023 PA Super 295<\/a>, ___ A.3d ___ (10\/3\/2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one spouse has filed for divorce, alleging that the marriage is irretrievably broken, and the other spouse fails to file an answer and dies before any judgment is entered, the grounds for divorce have not been established within the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[101,796],"class_list":["post-10041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-divorce-action","tag-grounds-for-divorce-established","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10057,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}