{"id":8467,"date":"2021-02-25T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2021-02-25T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:35:05","slug":"testimony-of-wife-to-lifetime-gifts-barred-by-dead-mans-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8467","title":{"rendered":"Testimony of Wife to Lifetime Gifts Barred by Dead Man&#8217;s Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the absence of independent testimony to the delivery of lifetime gifts, the wife&#8217;s interests in the alleged gifts was adverse to the decedent and so her testimony as to the gifts was barred by the Dead Man&#8217;s Act.  <em>In re Estate of Fiorentino Cerullo<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A27005-20o%20-%20104699311128484766.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2021 PA Super 27<\/a> (2\/25\/2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of independent testimony to the delivery of lifetime gifts, the wife&#8217;s interests in the alleged gifts was adverse to the decedent and so her testimony as to the gifts was barred by the Dead Man&#8217;s Act. In &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8467\">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":[222],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-dead-mans-rule","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","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=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}