{"id":3235,"date":"2015-04-01T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2016-02-18T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:41:16","slug":"oral-contract-to-make-will-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Oral Contract to Make Will Upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pre-1993 oral contract to make a will was found to have been established by the testimony of the beneficiary&#8217;s husband, brother, and nephew, and the beneficiary was found to have substantially performed her obligations under the contract when she was prevented from continuing to care for her father by her father&#8217;s own actions.\u00a0 <em>Meyers Estate<\/em>, 5 Fid. Rep. 3d 107 (O.C. Montgomery 2015) (Opinion by Murphy, J.), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S60041-15m.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1063 EDA 2015<\/a> (Pa. Super. 2\/17\/16) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n<p>[See 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2701 for the evidence needed to establish a contract relating to inheritance entered into after December 16, 1992.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pre-1993 oral contract to make a will was found to have been established by the testimony of the beneficiary&#8217;s husband, brother, and nephew, and the beneficiary was found to have substantially performed her obligations under the contract when she &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3235\">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":[130,132],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-contract-to-will","tag-pef-2701","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}