{"id":11955,"date":"2025-11-02T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11955"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:08:08","slug":"no-jurisdiction-over-burial-dispute-of-non-domiciliary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11955","title":{"rendered":"No Jurisdiction over Burial Dispute of Non-Domiciliary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Philadelphia Orphans&#8217; Court had no jurisdiction in a dispute over the burial of the decedent because the decedent was not domiciled in Pennsylvania and owned no property in Philadelphia, the decedent died outside of Pennsylvania, the decedent&#8217;s body was located in Pennsylvania but outside of Philadelphia, and the only connection to Philadelphia was that the decedent&#8217;s will directed that the decedent should be buried in a cemetery in Philadelphia. <em>Singer Estate<\/em>, 3 Fid.Rep.4th 240 (Philadelphia O.C. 2025), <em>aff&#8217;d on other grounds<\/em>, ___ A.4th ___, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S05028-26o%20-%20106768123356817672.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 PA Super 89<\/a> (4\/30\/2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Orphans&#8217; Court had no jurisdiction in a dispute over the burial of the decedent because the decedent was not domiciled in Pennsylvania and owned no property in Philadelphia, the decedent died outside of Pennsylvania, the decedent&#8217;s body was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11955\">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":[561,349,210,243],"class_list":["post-11955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-decedents-remains","tag-domicile","tag-jurisdiction","tag-venue","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955","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=11955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12299,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions\/12299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}