{"id":5297,"date":"2017-12-19T23:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T04:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2021-12-16T07:18:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:18:43","slug":"revocable-trust-not-modified-by-later-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"Revocable Trust not Modified by Later Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surviving spouse who is not a beneficiary of a revocable trust executed before the marriage is not entitled to an intestate share of the trust under 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2507(3) because that section is not a &#8220;rule of construction&#8221; within the meaning of\u00a020 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 7710.2.\u00a0\u00a0<em>In re: Trust under Deed of David P. Kulig<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=3618359171566400408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">175 A.3d 222<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/Majority%20Opinion%20%20ReversedRemanded%20%2010336093130967143.pdf\">97 MAP 2016<\/a> (Pa. 12\/19\/2017) (opinion by Justice Wecht, with Justices Todd and Dougherty joining; C.J. Saylor dissenting; Justices Donohue and Mundy not participating), rev&#8217;g 131 A.3d 494,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A25017-15o%20-%201024842575882227.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 PA Super 271<\/a> (2015),\u00a05 Fid. Rep. 3d 93 (O.C. Bucks Co. 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surviving spouse who is not a beneficiary of a revocable trust executed before the marriage is not entitled to an intestate share of the trust under 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2507(3) because that section is not a &#8220;rule of construction&#8221; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5297\">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":[532,594],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-modification-by-circumstances","tag-revocable-trust","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","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=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}