{"id":4101,"date":"2016-10-06T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:36:28","slug":"beneficiaries-of-trust-accounts-have-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4101","title":{"rendered":"Beneficiaries of Trust Accounts Have Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beneficiaries of certificates of deposits which the decedent had titled &#8220;in trust for&#8221; their benefit had standing to challenge actions of decedent&#8217;s agents who removed the beneficiary designations before the decedent&#8217;s death, notwithstanding the general rule that only the principal or the personal representative of the principal&#8217;s estate have standing to challenge the actions of agents acting under a durable power of attorney. \u00a0<em>Rellick v. Rellick-Smith<\/em>, 147 A.3d 897, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A13037-16o%20-%201027800348678697.pdf\">2016 PA Super 184<\/a> (Pa.Super. 8\/22\/2016).<\/p>\n<p>[For <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9884\">a later decision in this same case, also addressing the issue of standing<\/a>, see <em>Rellick v. Rellick-Smith<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A02018-23m%20-%20105539759224702803.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">630 WDA 2022<\/a> (Pa. Super. 5\/17\/2023) (non-precedential).]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beneficiaries of certificates of deposits which the decedent had titled &#8220;in trust for&#8221; their benefit had standing to challenge actions of decedent&#8217;s agents who removed the beneficiary designations before the decedent&#8217;s death, notwithstanding the general rule that only the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4101\">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":[74,156,371],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-power-of-attorney","tag-standing","tag-tentative-trusts","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","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=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9888,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/9888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}