{"id":9054,"date":"2022-02-06T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2022-02-06T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:06:01","slug":"consolidation-denied-to-avoid-waiver-of-dead-mans-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9054","title":{"rendered":"Consolidation Denied to Avoid Waiver of Dead Man&#8217;s Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a series of cases in involving a series of car collisions, the cases in which a decedent&#8217;s estate is a party will not be consolidated with the other cases because of the possibility that the Dead Mans&#8217; Act could be waived unintentionally, and because of the confusion or prejudice that could occur if testimony were admissible against some parties but not the estate.  <em>Marc Pitman v. Jason Piatt<\/em>, 12 Fid.Rep.3d 51 (Franklin C.D. 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a series of cases in involving a series of car collisions, the cases in which a decedent&#8217;s estate is a party will not be consolidated with the other cases because of the possibility that the Dead Mans&#8217; Act could &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9054\">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-9054","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\/9054","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=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9055,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions\/9055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}