{"id":10593,"date":"2024-04-28T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2024-04-28T21:39:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:39:39","slug":"photocopy-of-contract-not-to-change-will-was-inadmissable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10593","title":{"rendered":"Photocopy of Contract Not to Change Will Was Inadmissable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A photocopy of an alleged contract between a husband and wife not to change their wills was properly ruled to be inadmissable as evidence under the &#8220;best evidence rule&#8221; of Pa.R.E. 1002 because there was a &#8220;genuine issue&#8221; as to authenticity.  The burden of proof was on the proponent of the contract to prove that the contract was authentic and not on the challenger to the contract to prove forgery.  <em>In re: Estate of Kathy A. MacRae, Deceased<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A27021-23m%20-%20105910366263413536.pdf\">549 MDA 2023<\/a> (Pa. Super. 4\/22\/2024) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photocopy of an alleged contract between a husband and wife not to change their wills was properly ruled to be inadmissable as evidence under the &#8220;best evidence rule&#8221; of Pa.R.E. 1002 because there was a &#8220;genuine issue&#8221; as to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10593\">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":[813,130,227],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-best-evidence-rule","tag-contract-to-will","tag-forgery","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","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=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}