{"id":8824,"date":"2021-09-23T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:34:07","slug":"principal-creditor-denied-letters-of-administration-for-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8824","title":{"rendered":"Principal Creditor Denied Letters of Administration for Good Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Register of Wills did not abuse her discretion or commit an error of law in denying letters of administration to a principal creditor of the estate when the creditor had an ownership interest in property owned by the decedent which created a conflict of interest with other creditors and failed to disclose that interest, creating reasonable doubts about the ability of the petitioner to competently administer the estate and constituting &#8220;good cause&#8221; not to appoint him.  <em>Schwartz Estate<\/em>, 11 Fid.Rep.3d 210 (Bucks O.C. 2021), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, 275 A.3d 1032, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A03006-22o%20-%20105134043182724637.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2022 PA Super 80<\/a> (5\/5\/2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register of Wills did not abuse her discretion or commit an error of law in denying letters of administration to a principal creditor of the estate when the creditor had an ownership interest in property owned by the decedent &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8824\">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":[763,624,313],"class_list":["post-8824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-good-cause","tag-letters-of-administration","tag-register-of-wills","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824","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=8824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9716,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}