{"id":4022,"date":"2016-07-20T07:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2024-10-10T09:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T13:40:49","slug":"proving-contents-of-a-lost-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"Proving Contents of a Lost Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The execution and validity of a lost will must be proved by two witnesses, who need not testify as the contents of the will.\u00a0 The contents of the will must be proved by clear and convincing evidence.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Estate of Wilner<\/em>, 636 Pa. 277, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=16181771274314046053\">142 A. 3d 796<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-18-2016mo%20-%201027386188379133.pdf?cb=1\">No. 136 MAP 2014<\/a> (7\/19\/2016), rev&#8217;g 92 A.3d 1201 (Pa. Super. 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The execution and validity of a lost will must be proved by two witnesses, who need not testify as the contents of the will.\u00a0 The contents of the will must be proved by clear and convincing evidence.\u00a0\u00a0 Estate of Wilner, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4022\">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":[537,536],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-lost-wills","tag-pef-3132","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","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=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}