{"id":7148,"date":"2019-08-20T23:44:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T03:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2019-08-20T23:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T03:44:42","slug":"testimony-of-contingent-fee-witness-excluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7148","title":{"rendered":"Testimony of Contingent Fee Witness Excluded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court improperly excluded documentary evidence of the birth records of claimants to the estate, and could not exclude the testimony of a genealogical witness to be paid on a contingent fee for a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct, but could properly exclude the testimony on common law grounds as an improper fee agreement with a fact witness, and could properly conclude that the testimony deserved little or no weight.  <em>Estate of Albert Mikeska<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A23033-18o%20-%2010411005575610421.pdf\">2019 PA Super 249<\/a> (8\/20\/2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court improperly excluded documentary evidence of the birth records of claimants to the estate, and could not exclude the testimony of a genealogical witness to be paid on a contingent fee for a violation of the Rules of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7148\">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":[716],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-contingent-fee-witness","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","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=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}