{"id":11701,"date":"2025-08-02T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11701"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:50:17","slug":"beneficiary-had-right-of-occupancy-and-not-life-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11701","title":{"rendered":"Beneficiary Had Right of Occupancy and Not Life Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decedent&#8217;s will gave his home in trust &#8220;for the sole occupancy&#8221; of the decedent&#8217;s friend and caretaker, &#8220;until she vacates said premises, or upon her death.&#8221;  The Orphans&#8217; Court erroneously held that the beneficiary had a life estate, but she had only a right of occupancy.   Because the appellant failed to show that the sale of the property was needed to pay inheritance tax, the decree denying a sale of the property under 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 3351 was affirmed.  <em>In re: Estate of David A. Byerly<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S12012-25o%20-%20106458634321425057.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2025 PA Super 169<\/a>, ___ A.4th ___ (8\/1\/2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decedent&#8217;s will gave his home in trust &#8220;for the sole occupancy&#8221; of the decedent&#8217;s friend and caretaker, &#8220;until she vacates said premises, or upon her death.&#8221; The Orphans&#8217; Court erroneously held that the beneficiary had a life estate, but &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11701\">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":[436,435,720],"class_list":["post-11701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-life-estate","tag-right-of-occupancy","tag-sale-of-real-estate","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701","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=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11704,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions\/11704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}