{"id":416,"date":"2018-06-11T19:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duneganlaw.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2018-06-27T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T02:25:11","slug":"why-does-the-personal-representative-need-an-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/2018\/06\/11\/why-does-the-personal-representative-need-an-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The Personal Representative Need An Attorney?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A personal representative should always engage a qualified attorney to assist in the administration of the decedent\u2019s probate estate. Many legal issues arise, even in the simplest probate estate administration, and most of these issues will be novel and unfamiliar to non-attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney for the personal representative advises the personal representative on the rights and duties under the law, and represents the personal representative in probate estate proceedings. The attorney for the personal representative is not the attorney for any of the beneficiaries of the decedent\u2019s probate estate.<\/p>\n<p>A provision in a will mandating that a particular attorney or firm be employed as attorney for the personal representative is not binding. Instead, the personal representative may choose to engage any attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personal representative should always engage a qualified attorney to assist in the administration of the decedent\u2019s probate estate. Many legal issues arise, even in the simplest probate estate administration, and most of these issues will be novel and unfamiliar to non-attorneys. The attorney for the personal representative advises the personal representative on the rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}