{"id":11901,"date":"2025-10-23T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11901"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:23:28","slug":"power-of-attorney-was-invalid-without-notice-and-acknowledgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11901","title":{"rendered":"Power of Attorney Was Invalid without Notice and Acknowledgement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lease signed by agent for trustees as owners of the property was invalid because the power of attorney did not have the notice required by 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5601(c) or the acknowledgement of the agent required by 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5601(d). The immunity provision of 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5608(d) was not relevant because at issue was the validity of an option under a lease and there was no liability being asserted against the agent or the parties dealing the agent. <em>Motee v. Bazzanza, Trustee<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A22029-25m%20-%20106543737331969588.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">395 EDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 10\/15\/2025) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lease signed by agent for trustees as owners of the property was invalid because the power of attorney did not have the notice required by 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5601(c) or the acknowledgement of the agent required by 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11901\">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":[575,74],"class_list":["post-11901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-agents-liability","tag-power-of-attorney","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901","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=11901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11903,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}