{"id":9803,"date":"2023-06-26T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9803"},"modified":"2023-06-26T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:20:51","slug":"divorce-disinherited-step-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9803","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Did Not Disinherit Step-Grandchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Testamentary gifts to step-grandchildren that were conditioned upon their grandmother (the decedent\u2019s wife) not electing against his will and not recovering assets \u201cin our divorce after my death\u201d did not disinherit the step-grandchildren when a final decree of divorce (and equitable division of marital assets) was entered <em>before<\/em> death because the scrivener of the will testified that it was what the testator intended.  <em>In re: Estate of Thomas P. Cassidy, Deceased<\/em>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/superior\/out\/J-A01039-23o%20-%20105565418227303699.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2023 PA Super 101<\/a>, ___ A.3d. ___ (6\/9\/2023), <em>rev&#8217;g<\/em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9441\" target=\"_blank\">12 Fid.Rep.3d 423<\/a> (Bucks O.C. 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testamentary gifts to step-grandchildren that were conditioned upon their grandmother (the decedent\u2019s wife) not electing against his will and not recovering assets \u201cin our divorce after my death\u201d did not disinherit the step-grandchildren when a final decree of divorce (and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9803\">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":[788,456],"class_list":["post-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-extrinsic-evidence","tag-will-interpretation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","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=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9807,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}