{"id":5133,"date":"2017-11-07T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2017-11-07T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:49:16","slug":"death-bed-transfer-on-death-designation-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5133","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Death Bed&#8221; Transfer on Death Designation Valid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orphans&#8217; Court properly denied motion for summary judgment claiming that a transfer on death beneficiary designation signed by decedent and delivered to her bank shortly before her death was invalid because it was not accepted by the bank during the decedent&#8217;s lifetime, was filled in by her agent and not by the decedent, and failed to designate a contingent beneficiary, but the court&#8217;s finding that the account was not a testamentary asset was vacated and the case remanded so that the court could address the claim that the beneficiary designation was the result of undue influence by the agent.\u00a0 <em>In re: Estate of Anna S. Wierzbicki<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/26599733.pdf\">2017 PA Super 346<\/a> (11\/6\/2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orphans&#8217; Court properly denied motion for summary judgment claiming that a transfer on death beneficiary designation signed by decedent and delivered to her bank shortly before her death was invalid because it was not accepted by the bank during the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5133\">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":[629],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-transfer-on-death-designation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","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=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}