{"id":11763,"date":"2025-09-01T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:19:13","slug":"no-inter-vivos-gift-of-realty-without-deed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11763","title":{"rendered":"No Inter Vivos Gift of Realty without Deed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The handwritten, notarized document signed by the decedent by which he purportedly &#8220;gave&#8221; his house to the claimant, with the condition that the claimant pay the existing mortgage until he was able to obtain a mortgage in his own name, was not an <em>inter vivos<\/em> gift of the property because there was no delivery of a deed, and so the claimant filed to present clear, direct, precise, and convincing evidence of his interest in the property.  <em>In re: Estate of Robert O. Garvin II<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S18004-25m%20-%20106490245324699177.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1346 WDA 2024<\/a> (Pa. Super. 8\/28\/2025) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handwritten, notarized document signed by the decedent by which he purportedly &#8220;gave&#8221; his house to the claimant, with the condition that the claimant pay the existing mortgage until he was able to obtain a mortgage in his own name, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11763\">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":[827,841],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-delivery-of-gifts","tag-inter-vivos-gifts","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763","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=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}