{"id":5122,"date":"2017-11-04T18:19:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T22:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:55:38","slug":"agents-without-power-to-create-joint-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5122","title":{"rendered":"Agents without Power to Create Joint Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power of attorney did not include power to create joint accounts with rights of survivorship, or to commingle assets of the principal with the agents, so the creation of a joint account was invalid and the money in the account was part of the principal&#8217;s estate.\u00a0 <em>Miller Estate<\/em>, 7 Fid.Rep.3d 195 (Cumberland Co. O.C. 2017), <em>rev&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/memorandum%20-%20reversed%20-%2010330815926598857.pdf\">312 MDA 2017<\/a> (Pa. Super. 11\/6\/2017) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power of attorney did not include power to create joint accounts with rights of survivorship, or to commingle assets of the principal with the agents, so the creation of a joint account was invalid and the money in the account &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5122\">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":[627,74],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-joint-accounts","tag-power-of-attorney","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","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=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}