{"id":11399,"date":"2025-04-02T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11399"},"modified":"2025-04-13T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:47:23","slug":"burial-arrangements-in-unprobated-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11399","title":{"rendered":"Burial Arrangements in Unprobated Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court had jurisdiction to determine the disposition of the decedent&#8217;s remains in accordance with the will of the decedent even though the will had not yet been admitted to probate. The Philadelphia Orphans&#8217; Court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the decedent had been domiciled in Philadelphia when the decedent had sold his trailer in New Jersey and leased a residence in Philadelphia even though the decedent spent the last seven weeks of his life in medical facilities in Delaware County. <em>In re: Estate of Jeffrey Feldman<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S40001-24m%20-%20106321869305648219.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">465 EDA 2024<\/a> (Pa. Super. 3\/31\/2025) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court had jurisdiction to determine the disposition of the decedent&#8217;s remains in accordance with the will of the decedent even though the will had not yet been admitted to probate. The Philadelphia Orphans&#8217; Court did not abuse its &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11399\">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":[561,349],"class_list":["post-11399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-decedents-remains","tag-domicile","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","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=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11443,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions\/11443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}