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Publication Date: 2018-12-25
Practice Area: Legal Practice Management | Trusts and Estates
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Patti-Worthington
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Case Number: 18-1463
Where the decedent attorney named in his will two co-executors who were not attorneys but also directed that a specific attorney handle any matters involving his law practice, the court appointed the lawyer as conservator with the necessary powers to wind up decedent's law practice. The court granted a petition for the appointment of a conservator.
Publication Date: 2018-12-10
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 18-1117
Where decedent made a bequest to a non-profit, volunteer emergency services organization that had gone defunct, the court exercised the doctrine of cy pres to bequeath the funds to another volunteer emergency services organization that most closely resembled the original beneficiary. The court granted executor's petition to exercise cy pres power.
Publication Date: 2018-12-10
Practice Area: Litigation | Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Olson
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Case Number: 18-1492
Plaintiff received the necessary "favorable termination" of the underlying litigation to establish defendants' liability under the Dragonetti Act where defendants withdrew their claims against plaintiff because they realized that continued litigation could subject them to Dragonetti Act liability. The appellate court affirmed a verdict for plaintiff.
Publication Date: 2018-11-20
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
Judge: Judge Butts
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Case Number: 18-1346
The court rejected a claim against a decedent's estate in connection with a personal care agreement, because a confidential relations existed and the claimant failed to demonstrate the agreement was free from any undue influence.
Publication Date: 2018-11-20
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
Judge: Judge Serfass
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Case Number: 18-1351
Where petitioners failed to establish a prima facie case of undue influence with proof that the decedent was of a weakened intellect, respondents were not required to affirmatively demonstrate the absence of undue influence upon the decedent. The court recommended affirmance of its order denying petitioners' relief.
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Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 18-1307
A decedent's will expressly devised his residence to one of his sons, and the Dead Man's Rule precluded the admissibility of contrary statements by the decedent. The court granted a motion by the devisee to exclude other family members from the residence.
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
Practice Area: Fee Disputes | Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 18-1305
The executor of the estate at issue was not entitled to a commission charged where his unexplained delay in activity resulted in this relatively simple estate remaining open and where he failed to provide testimony to establish how his commission was calculated. The court denied executor a commission and assessed a sanction against him.
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Musmanno
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Case Number: 18-1275
Orphans' court erred in granting letters of administration C.T.A. to the attorney who held a power of attorney from the executrix named in the deceased's will because the register of wills had jurisdiction to grant letters of administration and there was no confirmation in the certified record that the will was admitted to probate or that the initial register of wills' determination was appealed to the orphan's court. Vacated.
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law | Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Kunselman
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Case Number: 18-1262
Where both parties' competency in this divorce action was called into question but neither parties' competency established, the trial court's equitable distribution award was premature. The appellate court vacated an equitable distribution order and divorce decree.
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Practice Area: Evidence | Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Carrafiello
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Case Number: 18-1155
Mother was entitled to the relief sought in her petition for forfeiture of father's share of wrongful death proceeds arising from the death of their minor child where father failed to support the child during the last year of his life. The court recommended affirmance of its order granting mother's forfeiture petition.
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