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Publication Date: 2022-12-26
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
Judge: Judge Verwey
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Case Number: 1520-0572
While counsel originally represented that he would not charge for legal services related to the basic work necessary for administering a small estate, he testified credibly about the fair and reasonable rates he charged for work that became necessary when the estate administration became contentious due to objector's own conduct. The court overruled objector's objections.
Publication Date: 2022-11-28
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Murray
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Case Number: 984 WDA 2021
Orphans' court properly clarified orders denying appellant's motion to dismiss estate's action, imposed sanctions and directed appellant to pay the previously agreed-upon settlement and court awarded additional counsel fees due to appellant's obdurate, dilatory and vexatious conduct. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-10-31
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Murray
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Case Number: 2572 EDA 2021
Trial court correctly accepted more-recently executed will for probate where evidence demonstrated that will was validly executed and challenging beneficiary failed to present any evidence of testator's weakened intellect to support a claim of undue influence. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-10-31
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Nichols
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Case Number: 2103 EDA 2021
Non-attorney trustee could not lawfully represent trust during legal proceedings, and their filings had to be stricken although it did not require quashal of the appeal. Appellee's motion to quash appeal denied, appellant's brief stricken.
Publication Date: 2022-10-31
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge Gilman
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Case Number: 2020-E0433
While a scrivener's error created a potential ambiguity in decedent's conditional bequest to his step-grandchildren, the record made clear that the bequest had been conditioned upon decedent still being married to the step-grandchildren's grandmother and, thus, the divorce and distribution of an equitable portion of the couple's marital assets rendered the bequest null and void. The court recommended affirmance.
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Publication Date: 2022-10-17
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
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Case Number: 77 of 2012, O.C.
The court granted a motion for reconsideration in part and denied it in part finding that the court had properly considered all relevant facts when appointing an attorney as a co-guardian of an incapacitated person's estate and person. The court noted that because petitioner raised no new facts, a motion for reconsideration was not the proper vehicle to simply present an argument for the second time.
Publication Date: 2022-10-03
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 415 WDA 2021
Orphan's court erred in granting trust beneficiary's request for injunctive relief preventing trustees from using trust assets to pay legal fees and in enjoining trustee from exercising any special power of appointment under the trust because orphans' court failed to either hold a hearing or make a finding of immediate and irreparable injury and trustee's exercise of her nonfiduciary special power of appointment was separate and distinct from her duties as a fiduciary. Order vacated.
Publication Date: 2022-10-03
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
Industry: Insurance | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 749 C.D. 2021
Order dismissing estate's claim to annuity funds vacated where the record did not permit a conclusive determination as to whether an orphans' court decree against the annuity company governed the annuity funds, which could subject them to attachment while in the treasury's custody. Order of the treasury department vacated, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2022-09-26
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: 001961-CV-2019
Court granted motion to dismiss matter arising out of a family dispute regarding a life tenancy on a decedent's property. The court granted the motion to dismiss on the grounds that the administrator of the estate failed to file the complaint within the applicable statute of limitations. The court further granted the motion on the grounds that the administrator simply speculated that decedent suffered damages but otherwise failed to produce any appraisals, facts, or figures which supported the claim.
Publication Date: 2022-09-26
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
Industry: Education | Non-Profit
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Murray
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Case Number: 1269 WDA 2021
Orphans' Court properly denied appellant university and trust beneficiary's motion to terminate the trust because appellant had not proven the existence of "administrative expense or other burdens unreasonably out of proportion to the charitable benefits" as required by 20 Pa.C.S.A. §7740.3(e). Affirmed.
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