{"id":10523,"date":"2024-03-26T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:22:15","slug":"dismissal-of-answer-and-new-matter-for-lack-of-standing-is-not-appealable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10523","title":{"rendered":"Dismissal of Answer and New Matter for Lack of Standing Is Not Appealable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#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>In re: Trust of John S. Middleton dated July 26, 1996<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=13906242805580243537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">313 A.3d 1090<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A21035-23o.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 PA Super 54<\/a> (3\/25\/2024), <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 Trusts<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10497\">Dismissal of Answer and New Matter Is Not Appealable<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; Court sustaining preliminary objections to an answer and new matter filed by the settlor &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10523\">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-10523","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\/10523","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=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11931,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}