{"id":9257,"date":"2022-06-24T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2024-08-12T20:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T00:43:02","slug":"spousal-election-is-irrevocable-after-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9257","title":{"rendered":"Spousal Election is Irrevocable after Six Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absent fraud or duress, a spousal election against a will (or an election to take under the will) becomes irrevocable at the end of the six month period allowed by 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2210(b) and may not be revoked merely because the surviving spouse had insufficient information about the estate. <em>In re: Estate of Caleem L. Jabbour, Deceased<\/em>, ___ Pa. ____, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11340214999180987321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">276 A.3d 1180<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-8-2022%20Majority%20Opinion.pdf?cb=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">13 WAP 2021<\/a> (6\/22\/2022), <em>rev&#8217;g<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A14026-20o%20-%20104647665124063382.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020 PA Super 299<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=3998511648061459239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">244 A.3d 1254<\/a> (12\/30\/2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absent fraud or duress, a spousal election against a will (or an election to take under the will) becomes irrevocable at the end of the six month period allowed by 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2210(b) and may not be revoked merely &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9257\">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":[181],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-spousal-election","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","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=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10889,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/10889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}