{"id":2902,"date":"2014-12-11T22:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2016-01-18T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:19:41","slug":"attorney-client-privilege-and-beneficiary-designations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"Attorney-Client Privilege and Beneficiary Designations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any &#8220;testamentary exception&#8221; to attorney-client privilege under Pennsylvania law does not apply to a subpoena to the decedent&#8217;s attorney in a defense to a challenge to life insurance beneficiary designations alleged to be the result of undue influence.\u00a0 <em>Collautt v. Li<\/em>, 5 Fid.Rep.3 190, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paed.uscourts.gov\/documents\/opinions\/14d0972p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 14-632<\/a> (U.S.D.C. E.D.Pa. 12\/11\/2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any &#8220;testamentary exception&#8221; to attorney-client privilege under Pennsylvania law does not apply to a subpoena to the decedent&#8217;s attorney in a defense to a challenge to life insurance beneficiary designations alleged to be the result of undue influence.\u00a0 Collautt v. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=2902\">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":[153,315,75],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-attorneyclient-privilege","tag-beneficiary-designations","tag-undue-influence","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","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=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}