The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that third-party beneficiaries to an estate do not have standing to sue an attorney who prepared documents for the testator if the attorney failed to have the client sign the forms before the client’s death.
In a unanimous ruling in Estate of Agnew v. Ross, the court said the third-party beneficiaries had no standing because they had no way of proving that the testator, Robert Agnew, actually intended to sign an amendment to his will and leave them more assets that he had originally planned to give as gifts to local colleges.
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