{"id":4615,"date":"2017-04-25T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2017-11-13T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:41:19","slug":"agent-cannot-revoke-principals-revocable-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4615","title":{"rendered":"Agent Cannot Revoke Principal&#8217;s Revocable Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An agent with the power to receive the income or corpus of a trust, as provided in 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5602(a)(7), cannot revoke the principal&#8217;s revocable trust by withdrawing all of the income and principal; an agent&#8217;s power over a revocable trust is subject to the provisions of the trust. \u00a0<em>Estate of: Bernice M. Kane, Power of Attorney<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S09031-17m%20-%2010307544117070298.pdf\">No. 2158 EDA 2016<\/a> (Pa. Super. 4\/24\/2017) (non-precedential), appeal den., <a href=\"https:\/\/ujsportal.pacourts.us\/DocketSheets\/AppellateCourtReport.ashx?docketNumber=363+MAL+2017\">363 MAL 2017<\/a> (10\/10\/2017).<\/p>\n<p>[Comment: \u00a0We do not often cite non-precedential opinions because of their limited value, but this case involved some important issues about the relationship between the agent under a durable power of attorney and the trustees of the principal&#8217;s revocable trust and the powers of an agent over the revocable trust. \u00a0Unfortunately, the agent-appellant failed to provide adequate arguments or authorities, and so was deemed to have waived many issues. \u00a0Still, the principles and reasoning of the court may be useful or instructive.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agent with the power to receive the income or corpus of a trust, as provided in 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5602(a)(7), cannot revoke the principal&#8217;s revocable trust by withdrawing all of the income and principal; an agent&#8217;s power over a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4615\">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":[74,594],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-power-of-attorney","tag-revocable-trust","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5156,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}