{"id":2206,"date":"2014-07-01T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2015-01-04T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:26:38","slug":"pro-se-representation-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"Pro Se Representation of Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Order by trial court directing the administrator of an estate to retain counsel to maintain appeal from tax sale affirmed because (a) the order was a collateral order appealable under Pa. R.A.P. 313, and (b) an administrator may not represent the estate <em>pro se<\/em> unless the administrator is the sole beneficiary and there are no creditors, because this would be the unauthorized practice of law.\u00a0 <em>Estate of Anna S. Rowley<\/em>, <a title=\"Estate of Anna Rowley\" href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=16437340014684138005&amp;q=84+A.3d+337&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=6,39\">84 A.3d 337<\/a>, 4 Fid. Rep. 3d 249, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Commonwealth\/out\/444CD13_12-23-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 444 C.D. 2013<\/a> (Cmwlth. 2013) (Opinion by Pellegrini, President Judge), app. den., 149 WAL 2014 (Pa. 8\/19\/2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order by trial court directing the administrator of an estate to retain counsel to maintain appeal from tax sale affirmed because (a) the order was a collateral order appealable under Pa. R.A.P. 313, and (b) an administrator may not represent &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[247,248],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-collateral-order","tag-unauthorized-practice-of-law","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}