{"id":1778,"date":"2013-12-01T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2015-06-10T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T18:37:27","slug":"rollins-estate%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"Spousal Election, Desertion, and Spousal Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court found that spouse, who had elected against decedent&#8217;s estate, had not willfully and maliciously deserted decedent, because the spouse had been abused by decedent, meaning the spouse&#8217;s desertion was with cause, and she had not forfeited her right to elect against decedent&#8217;s estate under PEF 2106(a).\u00a0 <em>Rollins Estate<\/em>, 3 Fid. Rep. 3d 448 (O.C. Chester 2013) (Opinion by Pratt)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court found that spouse, who had elected against decedent&#8217;s estate, had not willfully and maliciously deserted decedent, because the spouse had been abused by decedent, meaning the spouse&#8217;s desertion was with cause, and she had not forfeited her right to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1778\">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],"tags":[180,295,181],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-malicious-desertion","tag-pef-2106a","tag-spousal-election","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}