{"id":12541,"date":"2026-08-19T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12541"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:02:50","slug":"beneficiary-had-standing-to-seek-removal-of-executor-pa-super-np","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12541","title":{"rendered":"Beneficiary Had Standing to Seek Removal of Executor (Pa. Super. NP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether the beneficiary had standing to bring a malpractice action against the attorney for the executor was not relevant to whether the beneficiary had standing to seek the removal of the executor for employing the attorney, and the decedent not bringing a malpractice action against the attorney during her lifetime did not necessarily bar a malpractice action by her executor, so it was an error by the Orphans&#8217; Court to grant preliminary objections to the beneficiary&#8217;s petition to remove the executor for lack of standing and failure to state a claim. <em>In re: Estate of Deborah A. Haugh<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A15031-26m%20-%20106892293370534549.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1457 MDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 8\/18\/2026) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the beneficiary had standing to bring a malpractice action against the attorney for the executor was not relevant to whether the beneficiary had standing to seek the removal of the executor for employing the attorney, and the decedent not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12541\">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":[388,507,156],"class_list":["post-12541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-demurrer","tag-preliminary-objections","tag-standing","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541","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=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12549,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions\/12549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}