{"id":8931,"date":"2021-12-05T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T14:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:21:46","slug":"will-with-large-gift-to-companion-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8931","title":{"rendered":"Will with Larger Gift to Companion Upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decedent&#8217;s attorney testified that he had administered a &#8220;Mini-Mental Status Exam&#8221; to the decedent and that the decedent was &#8220;sharp&#8221; and &#8220;understood what he was doing&#8221; when he signed his fourth will providing increasing gifts to his long-time companion, and the objectors to the will failed to provide clear and convincing evidence of a lack of testamentary capacity or of weakened intellect.  <em>Frederick Estate<\/em>, 11 Fid.Rep.3d 286 (Bucks O.C. 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decedent&#8217;s attorney testified that he had administered a &#8220;Mini-Mental Status Exam&#8221; to the decedent and that the decedent was &#8220;sharp&#8221; and &#8220;understood what he was doing&#8221; when he signed his fourth will providing increasing gifts to his long-time companion, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8931\">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":[165,75],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-testamentary-capacity","tag-undue-influence","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","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=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}