{"id":3148,"date":"2015-03-01T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2015-10-13T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:51:11","slug":"no-genuine-issue-of-material-fact-in-undue-influence-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"No Genuine Issue of Material Fact in Undue Influence Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petitioner (in will contest) claimed fraud and undue influence against decedent&#8217;s attorney, who contacted the County Office of Services for the Aging (COSA), after petitioner had solicited the attorney&#8217;s help to draft a new will for the decedent but would not allow him to meet with decedent alone, and the attorney was notified that petitioner hired another attorney to draft decedent a new will.\u00a0 COSA intervened and had decedent&#8217;s attorney draft a new will restoring decedent&#8217;s estate plan pre-petitioner.\u00a0 Court granted summary judgment against petitioner&#8217;s claim of fraud, direct undue influence, or a shift of presumption of undue influence, because there was no genuine issue of material fact.\u00a0 <em>Flatow Estate<\/em>, 5 Fid. Rep. 3d 69 (O.C. Del. 2015) (opinion by Kenney, P.J.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petitioner (in will contest) claimed fraud and undue influence against decedent&#8217;s attorney, who contacted the County Office of Services for the Aging (COSA), after petitioner had solicited the attorney&#8217;s help to draft a new will for the decedent but would &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[429,226,75,76],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-fruad","tag-summary-judgment","tag-undue-influence","tag-will-contest","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","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=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}