{"id":11092,"date":"2024-12-08T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T02:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2024-12-08T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T02:08:07","slug":"civil-complaint-dismissed-which-overlapped-with-orphans-court-proceeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11092","title":{"rendered":"Civil Complaint Dismissed which Overlapped with Orphans&#8217; Court Proceeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Preliminary objections to a second amended complaint against the plaintiff&#8217;s brother, individually and as administrator of their father&#8217;s estate, were upheld and the complaint dismissed with prejudice when there were erroneous legal conclusions and insufficient factual allegations, and the issues raised in the complaint &#8220;substantially overlap&#8221; with issues already raised in an Orphans&#8217; Court proceeding involving the same decedent.  <em>Vasil v. Vasil<\/em>, 2 Fid.Rep.4th 265 (Mercer C.D. 2022), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/superior\/out\/J-A18008-23m%20-%20105812694253088039.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1367 WDA 2022<\/a> (Pa. Super. 1\/25\/2024), (non-precedential).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[In an earlier decision, the Superior Court affirmed the decision of the Orphans&#8217; Court to deny without a hearing a petition by the same plaintiff to remove his brother as the administrator of the estate.  <em>In re: Estate of Michael Vasil<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/superior\/out\/J-A29034-21m%20-%20105010111156594739.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">156 WDA 2021<\/a> (Pa. Super. 1\/11\/2022) (non-precedential).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary objections to a second amended complaint against the plaintiff&#8217;s brother, individually and as administrator of their father&#8217;s estate, were upheld and the complaint dismissed with prejudice when there were erroneous legal conclusions and insufficient factual allegations, and the issues &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11092\">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":[507,642],"class_list":["post-11092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-preliminary-objections","tag-res-judicata","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092","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=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11095,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}