{"id":9142,"date":"2022-05-08T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:38:50","slug":"creditor-denied-letters-of-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9142","title":{"rendered":"Creditor Denied Letters of Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Register of Wills had &#8220;good cause&#8221; to deny letters of administration to a creditor who had engaged litigation against the decedent during his lifetime, and whose claims were still unresolved, because the interests of the creditor were &#8220;hostile&#8221; to the estate.  In re: Estate of James E. Scwhartz, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=15740970595840270970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">275 A.3d 1032<\/a>, <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), <em>aff&#8217;ng<\/em> 11 Fid.Rep.3d 210 (Bucks O.C. 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register of Wills had &#8220;good cause&#8221; to deny letters of administration to a creditor who had engaged litigation against the decedent during his lifetime, and whose claims were still unresolved, because the interests of the creditor were &#8220;hostile&#8221; to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9142\">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-9142","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\/9142","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=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}