{"id":5229,"date":"2017-12-06T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2017-12-06T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:22:16","slug":"lawsuit-against-estate-was-nullity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5229","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit against &#8220;Estate&#8221; Was Nullity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal action cannot be filed against the &#8220;estate&#8221; of a decedent, but only the personal representatives of the estate, and so an action filed against an estate is a nullity and a personal representative of the estate cannot be substituted as the defendant after the statute of limitations has expired.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Wilkinson v. Knight<\/em>, 7 Fid.Rep.3d 336 (Crawford Co. C.P. 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal action cannot be filed against the &#8220;estate&#8221; of a decedent, but only the personal representatives of the estate, and so an action filed against an estate is a nullity and a personal representative of the estate cannot be substituted &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5229\">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":[640,459],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-proper-party-to-litigation","tag-statute-of-limitations","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","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=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}