The Pennsylvania Superior Court, providing guidance into what is necessary for a viable claim for intentional interference with an inheritance, has affirmed a Lancaster County trial judge’s dismissal of a woman’s claims that her sister and her mother’s lawyer tried to diminish her portion of her mother’s estate.

A three-judge panel in Fiedler v. Spencer, consisting of Judges Anne Lazarus, Victor Stabile and Alice Dubow, rejected plaintiff E. O’Rean Fiedler’s appeal in her case against Lancaster lawyer Patti Spencer and Fiedler’s sister, Latisha Bitts.