{"id":6354,"date":"2018-11-24T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2019-02-16T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T14:33:06","slug":"settlement-did-not-entitle-beneficiaries-to-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6354","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Did Not Entitle Beneficiaries to Legal Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement did not create a &#8220;common fund&#8221; that would justify the payment of legal fees from the estate when one residuary beneficiary made a payment to the other three residuary beneficiaries, and no other beneficiaries were unjustly enriched by the efforts of the counsel for the three beneficiaries.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Estate of Anita M. Moon, Deceased,<\/em> 8 Fid.Rep.3d 292 (Bucks O.C. 2018), aff&#8217;d, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A01022-19m.pdf\">1801 EDA 2018<\/a> (Pa. Super. 2\/15\/2019) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement did not create a &#8220;common fund&#8221; that would justify the payment of legal fees from the estate when one residuary beneficiary made a payment to the other three residuary beneficiaries, and no other beneficiaries were unjustly enriched by the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6354\">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":[256,300],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-common-fund-doctrine","tag-counsel-fees-and-costs","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","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=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}