{"id":4262,"date":"2016-12-31T17:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2017-01-17T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:46:38","slug":"misuse-of-power-of-attorney-and-joint-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4262","title":{"rendered":"Misuse of Power of Attorney and Joint Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon preliminary objections to a complaint filed in the Civil Division alleging abuse of a power of attorney, the action was transferred to the Orphans&#8217; Court, which has exclusive jurisdiction under 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 711(22). \u00a0Preliminary objection alleging that the plaintiff was incapacitated was dismissed because it would be a denial of due process without following the standards of 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5501, and a demurrer as to misuse of funds from a joint account was denied, because the mere fact that the defendant&#8217;s name is on the account does not allow the defendant to withdraw funds for his own benefit, citing 20 Pa.C.S. 6303(a). \u00a0<em>Hawk v. Gelnette and Hawk<\/em>, 6 Fid.Rep.3rd 219 (Jefferson Co. C.P. 3\/17\/2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon preliminary objections to a complaint filed in the Civil Division alleging abuse of a power of attorney, the action was transferred to the Orphans&#8217; Court, which has exclusive jurisdiction under 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 711(22). \u00a0Preliminary objection alleging that the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4262\">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":[210,252,74],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-jurisdiction","tag-multiple-party-account-act","tag-power-of-attorney","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","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=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}