{"id":2768,"date":"2015-02-09T18:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2019-03-11T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:04:42","slug":"malpractice-claim-beneficiaries-not-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"Malpractice Claim by Beneficiaries under Trust Amendment not Executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beneficiaries named in a trust amendment prepared by a lawyer have standing as third-party beneficiaries to sue the lawyer for breach of contract when the trust amendment was never executed due to an admitted &#8220;oversight&#8221; by the lawyer.\u00a0 <em>Estate of Robert H. Agnew v. Ross<\/em>, 110 A.3d 1020, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S79043-14o%20-%201020941913075333.pdf?cb=1\">2015 PA Super 22<\/a>,\u00a0No. 2195 EDA 2014 (2\/2\/2015), <em>rev&#8217;d,<\/em> 152 A.3d 247, No. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-61-2016mo%20-%2010295884615779881.pdf?cb=1\">76 MAP 2015<\/a>\u00a0(Pa. 1\/19\/2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneficiaries named in a trust amendment prepared by a lawyer have standing as third-party beneficiaries to sue the lawyer for breach of contract when the trust amendment was never executed due to an admitted &#8220;oversight&#8221; by the lawyer.\u00a0 Estate of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2768\">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":[360],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-lawyer-malpractice","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","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=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}