{"id":7673,"date":"2020-04-03T00:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7673"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:32:15","slug":"no-action-against-lawyer-for-acts-of-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7673","title":{"rendered":"No Action against Lawyer for Acts of Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An action for tortious interference with a right of inheritance cannot be brought against a lawyer for <em>inter vivos<\/em> transfers when the lawyer (a) prepared a power of attorney naming an agent who later abused the powers granted to the agent and (b) erroneously advised the agent as to the propriety of <em>inter vivos<\/em> transfers that reduced the estate of which the plaintiff was a beneficiary.   <em>Fiedler v. Spencer<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A03013-20o%20-%2010438721499123851.pdf\">2020 PA Super 83<\/a> (4\/2\/2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An action for tortious interference with a right of inheritance cannot be brought against a lawyer for inter vivos transfers when the lawyer (a) prepared a power of attorney naming an agent who later abused the powers granted to the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7673\">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":[593,508],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-agents-duties","tag-tortious-interference","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673","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=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}