Guest vs. Hansen

The New York Law Journal has posted Guest vs. Hansen, which was decided on April 20, 2010. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second circuit held that an administrator who is a beneficiary of an estate may represent the estate pro se, so long as the estate has no other beneficiaries or creditors. The Court had previously ruled that "an administr[ator] or execut[or] of an estate may not proceed pro se when the estate has beneficiaries or creditors other than the litigant," but had reserved the question of a sole beneficiary administrator.

Posted by Patrick Siegfried, Associate Editor, Wealth Strategies Journal.