{"id":11625,"date":"2025-07-06T21:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11625"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:53:24","slug":"anti-lapse-statute-applied-to-estate-to-be-equally-divided-among-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11625","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Lapse Statute Applied to Estate to &#8220;Be Equally Divided Among&#8221; Siblings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The testator&#8217;s direction that his estate &#8220;be equally divided among&#8221; his siblings did not evidence an intent to override the anti-lapse statute, 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2514(9).  However, the Orphans&#8217; Court erred in holding that the distributions to the issues of the deceased siblings was to be &#8220;per capita,&#8221; because the anti-lapse statute provides that the share of each deceased sibling should be distributed to his or her issue <em>per stirpes<\/em>.  <em>In re: Estate of Timothy P. Lucas<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S15002-25m%20-%20106422646317004525.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1137 WDA 2024<\/a> (Pa. Super. 7\/1\/2025) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Following remand to the Orphans&#8217; Court and the entry of a decree in compliance with the above opinion of the Superior Court, there was a second appeal, and that appeal was denied under the doctrine of the &#8220;law of the case.&#8221;  <em>In re: Estate of Timothy P. Lucas<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S16002-26m%20-%20106812973361932977.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1123 WDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 6\/9\/2026) (non-precedential).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The testator&#8217;s direction that his estate &#8220;be equally divided among&#8221; his siblings did not evidence an intent to override the anti-lapse statute, 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2514(9). However, the Orphans&#8217; Court erred in holding that the distributions to the issues of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11625\">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":[850,851],"class_list":["post-11625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-anti-lapse-statute","tag-per-stirpes","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625","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=11625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12415,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions\/12415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}