{"id":6139,"date":"2018-08-19T17:42:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2018-08-19T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:42:43","slug":"attorney-client-privilege-waived-in-will-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"Attorney-Client Privilege Waived in Will Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beneficiary of a putative will has standing to request a waiver of attorney-client privilege in a dispute over the validity of the will due to lack of testamentary capacity, allegations of fraud in the execution of a note by the decedent without consideration and the execution and attempted probate of wills and trusts while the decedent lacked testamentary capacity were sufficient to invoke the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege, and the interests of justice require waiver of the decedent&#8217;s attorney-client privilege when the decedent&#8217;s attorneys are most likely to be able to provide relevant evidence of the decedent&#8217;s testamentary capacity.\u00a0 <em>Hughes Estate<\/em>, 8 Fid.Rep.3d 169 (O.C. Cumberland Co. 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beneficiary of a putative will has standing to request a waiver of attorney-client privilege in a dispute over the validity of the will due to lack of testamentary capacity, allegations of fraud in the execution of a note by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6139\">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":[153,165],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-attorneyclient-privilege","tag-testamentary-capacity","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","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=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}