{"id":6197,"date":"2018-09-30T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2018-09-30T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:27:26","slug":"dead-mans-act-not-waived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6197","title":{"rendered":"Dead Man&#8217;s Act Not Waived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Requests by the executors to the surviving spouse for bank statements and life insurance information that were needed for estate administration did not constitute discovery waiving the Dead Man&#8217;s Act (42 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5930), and so the surviving spouse was barred from testifying about the validity her prenuptial agreement with the decedent, which prohibited her from electing against the will.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Hipp, Sr. Estate<\/em>, 8 Fid.Rep.3d 233 (Chester O.C. 2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requests by the executors to the surviving spouse for bank statements and life insurance information that were needed for estate administration did not constitute discovery waiving the Dead Man&#8217;s Act (42 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 5930), and so the surviving spouse was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6197\">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":[222],"class_list":["post-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-dead-mans-rule","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197","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=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}