{"id":4501,"date":"2011-03-08T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2017-03-08T14:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:39:30","slug":"agent-cannot-sign-codicil-for-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"Agent Cannot Sign Codicil for Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An agent under a durable power of attorney cannot sign a testamentary document for a principal, so a codicil that is not signed at the direction of the testator is accordance with 20 Pa.C.S. 2502(3) is not valid and will be stricken from probate. \u00a0<em>Pendergrass Will<\/em>, 30 Fid.Rep.2d 430 (Montgomery O.C. 2010) (opinion by Ott, J.), <em>app. dism&#8217;d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=12184137897398743580\">26 A.3d 1141<\/a> (Pa. Super. 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agent under a durable power of attorney cannot sign a testamentary document for a principal, so a codicil that is not signed at the direction of the testator is accordance with 20 Pa.C.S. 2502(3) is not valid and will &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4501\">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":[583,74],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-pef-2502","tag-power-of-attorney","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501","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=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}