{"id":3692,"date":"2015-06-01T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2016-01-18T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:32:25","slug":"declaratory-judgment-interpreting-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"Declaratory Judgment Interpreting Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declaratory judgement entered interpreting handwritten will as granting petitioner a fee simple interest in decedent&#8217;s residence, and not a life estate, despite language regarding the sale and distribution of proceeds of sale in the event of petitioner&#8217;s death, which were held to be precatory.\u00a0 The court also held that the gift of the &#8220;house and contents&#8221; included the contents of the attached and detached garages, but that gifts to &#8220;all the grandchildren&#8221; included only the decedent&#8217;s grandchildren and not the petitioner&#8217;s grandchildren.\u00a0 <em>Heckendorn Estate<\/em>, 5 Fid.Rep.3d 208 (O.C. Cumb. 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declaratory judgement entered interpreting handwritten will as granting petitioner a fee simple interest in decedent&#8217;s residence, and not a life estate, despite language regarding the sale and distribution of proceeds of sale in the event of petitioner&#8217;s death, which were &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3692\">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":[512,456],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-precatory-language","tag-will-interpretation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","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=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}