{"id":10300,"date":"2024-01-21T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2024-01-21T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:23:27","slug":"niece-not-named-in-prior-wills-did-not-have-standing-to-contest-later-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10300","title":{"rendered":"Niece Not Named in Prior Wills Did Not Have Standing to Contest Later Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The niece of the decedent did not have standing to contest the will of the decedent because she was not named as a beneficiary in the two previous wills of the decedent and was named only as a co-executor in the earliest will, which does not confer standing.  <em>Netzel Estate<\/em>, 1 Fid.Rep.4th 223 (Allegheny O.C. 2022), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/superior\/out\/J-A08019-23m%20-%20105634052235327735.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">984 WDA 2022<\/a>\u00a0(Pa. Super. 8\/11\/2023) (non-precedential) (see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9920\">Executor under Prior Will Lacked Standing in Will Contest<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The niece of the decedent did not have standing to contest the will of the decedent because she was not named as a beneficiary in the two previous wills of the decedent and was named only as a co-executor in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10300\">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":[156],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-standing","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300","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=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}