{"id":6200,"date":"2018-09-30T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6200"},"modified":"2019-05-19T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T21:00:09","slug":"health-care-agent-was-in-confidential-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6200","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Agent Was in Confidential Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The niece of the decedent who acted as the decedent&#8217;s health care agent and was the sole emergency contact listed for the decedent in the hospital&#8217;s medical records, and who also prepared the will for the decedent to sign which named the niece as sole beneficiary, was in a confidential relationship with the decedent for purposes of proving undue influence.\u00a0 The testimony of the decedent&#8217;s physician that he was suffering from &#8220;persistent confusion, forgetfulness, and disorientation&#8221; was sufficient evidence of a weakened intellect.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Laughman Estate<\/em>, 8 Fid.Rep.3d 242 (Adams Co. O.C. 2018), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/memorandum%20%20affirmed%20%2010373009442876036.pdf\">555 MDA 2018<\/a> (Super. Ct. 10\/10\/2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The niece of the decedent who acted as the decedent&#8217;s health care agent and was the sole emergency contact listed for the decedent in the hospital&#8217;s medical records, and who also prepared the will for the decedent to sign which &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6200\">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":[426,75],"class_list":["post-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-health-care-power-of-attorney","tag-undue-influence","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","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=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6947,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}