{"id":11173,"date":"2024-12-29T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T01:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11173"},"modified":"2024-12-29T20:49:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T01:49:46","slug":"testamentary-direction-to-employ-wife-was-unenforceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11173","title":{"rendered":"Testamentary Direction to Employ Wife Was Unenforceable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court had jurisdiction in a dispute over a provision in a will directing that the testator&#8217;s wife &#8220;remain on the payroll&#8221; of a corporation he controlled, and the dispute did not become moot by reason of the wife&#8217;s death during the litigation, but the direction was unenforceable because the gifts of the testator&#8217;s stock in the corporation were unconditional and so the direction was precatory, and because a shareholder cannot dictate the policies of a corporation by will.  <em>In re: Estate of Kenneth C. Haugh, Deceased<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A27008-23m%20-%20106132750286670198.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">163 MDA 2023<\/a> (Pa. Super. 11\/4\/2024) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court had jurisdiction in a dispute over a provision in a will directing that the testator&#8217;s wife &#8220;remain on the payroll&#8221; of a corporation he controlled, and the dispute did not become moot by reason of the wife&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11173\">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":[210,299,512,456],"class_list":["post-11173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-jurisdiction","tag-mootness","tag-precatory-language","tag-will-interpretation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173","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=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11183,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}