{"id":9197,"date":"2022-05-23T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2023-02-19T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T14:02:04","slug":"undue-influence-by-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9197","title":{"rendered":"Undue Influence by Spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A will which directed the executor (who was the decedent&#8217;s long-time companion and later spouse) to distribute the residue of his estate &#8220;according to my wishes&#8221; would result in a distribution by intestacy, and so a later will which left the residue to the spouse was a substantial benefit.  There was conclusive evidence that the decedent suffered from a weakened intellect before executing the new will, and that the decedent&#8217;s spouse influenced and controlled the decedent&#8217;s decisions, and that the new will was the product of the spouse&#8217;s undue influence.  <em>Roscher Estate<\/em>, 12 Fid.Rep.3d 151 (Berks O.C. 2021), <em>rev&#8217;d<\/em>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S23037-22m%20-%20105353979204950400.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">119 MDA 2022<\/a> (Pa. Super. 11\/29\/2022), (non-precedential; insufficient evidence of weakened intellect).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A will which directed the executor (who was the decedent&#8217;s long-time companion and later spouse) to distribute the residue of his estate &#8220;according to my wishes&#8221; would result in a distribution by intestacy, and so a later will which left &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9197\">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":[654,75],"class_list":["post-9197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-substantial-benefit","tag-undue-influence","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197","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=9197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9617,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions\/9617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}