{"id":4392,"date":"2017-01-20T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2019-03-11T07:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:04:02","slug":"beneficiaries-named-in-unsigned-document-lack-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"Beneficiaries Named in Unsigned Document Lack Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beneficiaries named in a trust amendment prepared by a lawyer do not have standing as third-party beneficiaries to sue the lawyer for breach of contract when the trust amendment was never executed due to an admitted &#8220;oversight&#8221; by the lawyer.\u00a0 <em>Estate of Robert H. Agnew v. Ross<\/em>, 152 A.3d 247, No. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-61-2016mo%20-%2010295884615779881.pdf?cb=1\">76 MAP 2015<\/a>\u00a0(Pa. 1\/19\/2017), <em>rev&#8217;g<\/em> 110 A.3d 1020, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S79043-14o%20-%201020941913075333.pdf?cb=1\">2015 PA Super 22<\/a>\u00a0(2\/2\/2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneficiaries named in a trust amendment prepared by a lawyer do not have standing as third-party beneficiaries to sue the lawyer for breach of contract when the trust amendment was never executed due to an admitted &#8220;oversight&#8221; by the lawyer.\u00a0 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4392\">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":[360,156],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-lawyer-malpractice","tag-standing","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","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=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}