{"id":5841,"date":"2018-05-08T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2019-02-23T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T15:59:18","slug":"co-agent-jointly-liable-for-theft-from-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5841","title":{"rendered":"Co-Agent Jointly Liable for Theft from Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a co-agent with her husband, a wife had a duty to the principal to act on her knowledge of her husband&#8217;s actions to protect the principal from theft and fraud by the husband as co-agent, and is therefore jointly and severally liable for the funds taken improperly from the principal&#8217;s accounts.\u00a0 The court also retroactively imposed a constructive trust upon the residence of the husband and wife, which was improved using the appropriated funds and transferred from the husband to the wife as part of a sham divorce.\u00a0\u00a0<em>In Re: Peter S. Whitby, Principal<\/em>, 8 Fid.Rep.3d 92 (Montgomery O.C. 2018), aff&#8217;d, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/Memorandum%20%20Affirmed%20%2010388999651554270.pdf\">561 EDA 2018<\/a> (Pa. Super. 2\/22\/2019) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a co-agent with her husband, a wife had a duty to the principal to act on her knowledge of her husband&#8217;s actions to protect the principal from theft and fraud by the husband as co-agent, and is therefore jointly &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5841\">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":[575,675,633],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-agents-liability","tag-co-agents-liability","tag-constructive-trust","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841","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=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6666,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}