{"id":4177,"date":"2016-12-15T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2024-08-12T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T00:50:57","slug":"election-by-alleged-common-law-spouse-is-time-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"Election by Alleged Common Law Spouse is Time-Barred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attempted election against a will, made more than six months after probate, is properly dismissed on summary judgment because the claimant must have known whether she and the decedent agreed to be married and so the six month limitation in 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2210(b) was not tolled by alleged fraud by the decedent&#8217;s children in repeatedly telling her she was merely a &#8220;girlfriend.&#8221; \u00a0<em>In re Est. of Tito<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=18064145862685136815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">150 A.3d 464<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/j-s73026-16o%20-%2010288416314228978.pdf\">2016 PA Super 245<\/a> (11\/15\/2016), <em>app. den.<\/em>, 168 A.3d 1274 (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempted election against a will, made more than six months after probate, is properly dismissed on summary judgment because the claimant must have known whether she and the decedent agreed to be married and so the six month limitation &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4177\">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":[124,550,181,551],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-common-law-marriage","tag-pef-2210","tag-spousal-election","tag-tolling-of-limitations","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","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=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10894,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/10894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}