{"id":6243,"date":"2018-10-12T09:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:58:53","slug":"agent-cannot-represent-incapacitated-principal-in-divorce-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6243","title":{"rendered":"Agent Cannot Represent Incapacitated Principal in Divorce Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has held that an incapacitated person can be represented in a divorce action only by a court-appointed guardian or guardian <em>ad litem<\/em>, and that an agent under a durable power of attorney cannot prosecute or defend a divorce action on behalf of an incapacitated principal. <em>Berry v. Berry<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/Opinion%20%20Vacated%20%2010373208342915547.pdf\">2018 PA Super 276<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=9268206030755171261&amp;q=divorce+and+%22power+of+attorney%22&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,39&amp;as_ylo=2015&amp;as_yhi=2023\">197 A. 3d 788<\/a> (2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has held that an incapacitated person can be represented in a divorce action only by a court-appointed guardian or guardian ad litem, and that an agent under a durable power of attorney cannot prosecute or defend a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6243\">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":[34,1],"tags":[679,233,142],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","category-uncategorized","tag-agents-powers","tag-divorce","tag-incapacitated-person","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","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=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10129,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions\/10129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}