{"id":10705,"date":"2024-06-12T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:08:26","slug":"gift-of-salary-interpreted-as-demonstrative-bequest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10705","title":{"rendered":"Gift of Salary Interpreted as Demonstrative Bequest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decedent&#8217;s handwritten will included the direction that his &#8220;salery [sic] from NTM INC. shell [sic] be paid directly to [decedent&#8217;s surviving spouse] for a period of two years or until such time that she remarries, which ever occurs first,&#8221; which was interpreted as a demonstrative bequest of an amount equal to two years of the salary he was receiving at his death, rather than a specific bequest of salary payable after his death (which would be an invalid gift of something which the decedent did not own). <em>In re: Estate of Ronald A. Weller, Deceased<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A02006-24m%20-%20105965644269590199.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">730 MDA 2023<\/a> (Pa. Super. 6\/11\/2024) (non-precedential), <em>aff&#8217;g<\/em>, 3 Fid.Rep.4th 197 (Cumberland O.C. 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decedent&#8217;s handwritten will included the direction that his &#8220;salery [sic] from NTM INC. shell [sic] be paid directly to [decedent&#8217;s surviving spouse] for a period of two years or until such time that she remarries, which ever occurs first,&#8221; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10705\">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":[819,456],"class_list":["post-10705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-demonstrative-gift","tag-will-interpretation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705","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=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11944,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions\/11944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}