{"id":5340,"date":"2018-01-03T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2018-01-03T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:25:27","slug":"residuary-beneficiaries-have-standing-for-malpractice-over-tod-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5340","title":{"rendered":"Residuary Beneficiaries Have Standing for Malpractice over TOD Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decedent&#8217;s grandchildren, as 30% residuary beneficiaries under the will drafted by the defendant law firm, have standing to pursue a malpractice action against the law firm when the bulk of the decedent&#8217;s assets were in a &#8220;transfer on death&#8221; brokerage account payable to the decedent&#8217;s children, but the grandchildren&#8217;s claim for breach of contract was dismissed for failure to state a claim.\u00a0 <em>Fortunato v. CGA Law Firm<\/em>, 2017 WL 3129825, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11198122638787202265\">No. 1:17-cv_00201<\/a> (U.S.D.C. M.D.Pa. 7\/24\/2017) (applying Pennsylvania law).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decedent&#8217;s grandchildren, as 30% residuary beneficiaries under the will drafted by the defendant law firm, have standing to pursue a malpractice action against the law firm when the bulk of the decedent&#8217;s assets were in a &#8220;transfer on death&#8221; brokerage &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5340\">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":[360,156],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-lawyer-malpractice","tag-standing","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","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=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5344,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions\/5344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}