{"id":12547,"date":"2026-08-19T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12547"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:55:52","slug":"summary-judgment-in-will-contest-pa-super-np","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12547","title":{"rendered":"Summary Judgment in Will Contest (Pa. Super. NP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After discovery was completed in this will contest, the depositions of long-time friends of the decedent as to the execution of the will, and medical records that did not show a lack of testamentary capacity or weakened intellect, made summary judgment appropriate because there were no genuine issues of material facts.  <em>In re: Estate of Donald E. Markelwitz<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S18019-26m%20-%20106857981366853774.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1738 MDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 7\/20\/2026) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discovery was completed in this will contest, the depositions of long-time friends of the decedent as to the execution of the will, and medical records that did not show a lack of testamentary capacity or weakened intellect, made summary &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12547\">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":[226,165,151],"class_list":["post-12547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-summary-judgment","tag-testamentary-capacity","tag-weakened-intellect","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547","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=12547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12548,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions\/12548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}