{"id":11810,"date":"2025-09-14T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:42:41","slug":"will-forgery-proven-by-handwriting-expert-despite-testimony-of-subscribing-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"Will Forgery Proven by Handwriting Expert Despite Testimony of Subscribing Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was not an error of law or abuse of discretion for the Orphans&#8217; Court to find that there was clear and convincing evidence that the probated will was a forgery based on the testimony of a handwriting expert and other witnesses familiar with the decedent and his signature, and contrary to the testimony of another expert, as well as a witness who claimed to have witnessed the execution of the will.  <em>In re: Estate of Carlos Ignacio Sanchez<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A20003-25m%20-%20106506992326647452.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">66 EDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 9\/12\/2025) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not an error of law or abuse of discretion for the Orphans&#8217; Court to find that there was clear and convincing evidence that the probated will was a forgery based on the testimony of a handwriting expert and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11810\">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":[453],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-will-forgery","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","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=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11812,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}