{"id":10466,"date":"2024-03-10T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2024-03-10T23:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:03:44","slug":"undue-influence-not-proven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10466","title":{"rendered":"Undue Influence Not Proven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The credible testimony of a reputable attorney who had known the decedent for many years created a presumption of the absence of undue influence.  Conflicting testimony as to the health and mental state of the decedent was insufficient to establishe weakened intellect, an increase in a share of the estate by only 8% was not a substantial benefit, and the grant of a power of attorney was not a confidential relationship when the decedent continued to manage his own financial affairs and the agent only used the power to pay a bill and to pay for hospice care after the will was signed.  <em>Roche Estate<\/em>, 1 Fid.Rep.4th 487 (Luzerne O.C. 2022), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/superior\/out\/J-A16006-23m%20-%20105717945244591692.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1377 MDA 2022<\/a> (Pa. Super. 10\/27\/2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The credible testimony of a reputable attorney who had known the decedent for many years created a presumption of the absence of undue influence. Conflicting testimony as to the health and mental state of the decedent was insufficient to establishe &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10466\">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":[517,654,75,151],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-confidential-relationship","tag-substantial-benefit","tag-undue-influence","tag-weakened-intellect","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","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=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}