{"id":1772,"date":"2013-05-01T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:34:47","slug":"creamers-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"No Undue Influence without Weakened Intellect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0 a will contest for undue influence, the court found that the testator did not have a weakened intellect, meaning a <em>prima facia\u00a0<\/em>claim of undue influence fails.\u00a0 Also, the court rejected an amendment to the petition for appeal from the Register because of statute of limitations; New Jersey&#8217;s element for undue influence of &#8220;suspicious circumstances&#8221; could not be imported to Pennsylvania law; and even if imported, an ethical violation by a lawyer for representing a client against a former client (which the court found did not happen) does not invalidate a will.\u00a0<em> Cremers Will<\/em>, 3 Fid. Rep. 3d\u00a0152 (O.C.\u00a0Chester 2012) (Opinion by Hall, J.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0 a will contest for undue influence, the court found that the testator did not have a weakened intellect, meaning a prima facia\u00a0claim of undue influence fails.\u00a0 Also, the court rejected an amendment to the petition for appeal from the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,33],"tags":[75,151,76],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","category-resources","tag-undue-influence","tag-weakened-intellect","tag-will-contest","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}