{"id":12621,"date":"2026-09-27T20:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12621"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:34:42","slug":"exercise-of-limited-power-of-appointment-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12621","title":{"rendered":"Exercise of Limited Power of Appointment Invalid (Pa. Super. NP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Superior Court has affirmed the grant of summary judgement by the Orphans&#8217; Court holding that the attempted exercise of a limited power of appointment was invalid because it was not to a &#8220;charity&#8221; as defined by the trust document.  <em>In re: Trust under Agreement of Sara Mellon Scaife<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.sodapdf.com\/edit\/document\/d910527f-8602-4915-903f-7c1b078e27a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">866 WDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 9\/23\/2026) (non-precedential), <em>aff&#8217;g<\/em>, <em>Scaife Trust<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Fid.Rep.4th 223<\/a> (Allegheny O.C. 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has affirmed the grant of summary judgement by the Orphans&#8217; Court holding that the attempted exercise of a limited power of appointment was invalid because it was not to a &#8220;charity&#8221; as defined by the trust document. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12621\">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":[397,698],"class_list":["post-12621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-limited-power-of-appointment","tag-trust-interpretation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621","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=12621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12625,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions\/12625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}