{"id":12320,"date":"2026-05-08T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:54:10","slug":"ejectment-action-in-civil-division-valid-despite-allegation-of-incapacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12320","title":{"rendered":"Ejectment Action in Civil Division Valid Despite Allegation of Incapacity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the absence of a petition for guardianship or a petition in the orphans&#8217; court to approve the actions of an agent under a power of attorney, the civil division of the court of common pleas had jurisdiction to determine the validity of the title of the record owner of property in an ejectment action despite allegations that the title had been acquired title through a power of attorney that was invalid due to the incapacity of the original owner, and the civil division was not required to refer the allegations of incapacity to the orphans&#8217; court division.  <em>Garcia v. Myatt<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A10016-26m%20-%20106775609357691261.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1582 EDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 5\/7\/2026) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a petition for guardianship or a petition in the orphans&#8217; court to approve the actions of an agent under a power of attorney, the civil division of the court of common pleas had jurisdiction to determine &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12320\">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":[733,691,210,74],"class_list":["post-12320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-ejectment","tag-incapacity","tag-jurisdiction","tag-power-of-attorney","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320","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=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12321,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions\/12321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}