{"id":5234,"date":"2017-12-09T21:52:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2017-12-09T21:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:52:46","slug":"benefits-claim-of-common-law-spouse-denied-after-failure-to-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5234","title":{"rendered":"Benefits Claim of Common Law Spouse Denied after Failure to Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person denied benefits from a municipal pension fund after a finding by a hearing board that a common law marriage was not proven, from which no appeal was made to the Court of Common Pleas, cannot later obtain a judgment in the Orphans&#8217; Court that a common law marriage existed, and the 0% spousal inheritance tax rate applies, and then use that judgment to force payment of the benefits previously denied.\u00a0 <em>In re: Estate of John F. Pancari Sr.<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Commonwealth\/out\/1304CD16_12-8-17.pdf\">1304 C.D. 2016<\/a> (Pa. Cmwlth. 12\/8\/2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person denied benefits from a municipal pension fund after a finding by a hearing board that a common law marriage was not proven, from which no appeal was made to the Court of Common Pleas, cannot later obtain a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5234\">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":[124],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-common-law-marriage","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","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=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}