{"id":6561,"date":"2019-02-03T23:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2019-02-03T23:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:05:55","slug":"lifetime-gifts-were-not-advancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6561","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime Gifts were not Advancements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the will unambiguously left the testator&#8217;s estate to his four children in equal shares, it was error for the court to interpret the will to treat gifts made by the testator&#8217;s agent after the execution of the will as &#8220;advancements&#8221; that reduced the donees&#8217; shares of the estate.  It was also error for the court to <em>sua sponte<\/em> order that a joint account be included in the executor&#8217;s account as an asset of the estate when no party had raised the issue.  <em>In re: Estate of Alexander T. Tscherneff<\/em>, 2019 PA Super 25 (2\/1\/2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the will unambiguously left the testator&#8217;s estate to his four children in equal shares, it was error for the court to interpret the will to treat gifts made by the testator&#8217;s agent after the execution of the will as &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6561\">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":[702,627,456],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-advancements","tag-joint-accounts","tag-will-interpretation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","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=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}