{"id":10497,"date":"2024-03-23T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2024-03-26T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:48:41","slug":"dismissal-of-answer-and-new-matter-is-not-appealable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10497","title":{"rendered":"Dismissal of Answer and New Matter Is Not Appealable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an action relating to the appointment of a trustee and change of situs of an irrevocable trust, the order of the Orphans&#8217; Court sustaining preliminary objections to an answer and new matter filed by the settlor of the trust, finding that the settlor had no standing, was not a final order and was not otherwise appealable.  <em>Trust of John S. Middleton<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A21036-23m.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2449 EDA 2022<\/a> (Pa. Super. 3\/21\/2024) (non-precedential), <em>quashing appeal from<\/em> 12 Fid.Rep.3d 543 (Montgomery O.C. 2022) (see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9468\">Settlor Lacked Standing in Litigation over Trust<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[3\/26\/2024 Note: The original version of this summary failed to identify which of two similar actions were the subject of the appeal.  For a published Superior Court opinion addressing the same issues with the same settlor, but a different trust, see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10523\">Dismissal of Answer and New Matter for Lack of Standing Was Not Appealable<\/a>&#8220;.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an action relating to the appointment of a trustee and change of situs of an irrevocable trust, the order of the Orphans&#8217; Court sustaining preliminary objections to an answer and new matter filed by the settlor of the trust, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10497\">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":[126,156],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-appealability","tag-standing","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","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=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}