For the middle step, if we apply p series test to all the kth partial sums, it should converge absolutely, thus the limit will converge to some well defined value
Evaluating however is a different story (which is why I suck at series, especially this one has no factorials to allow me to pattern match some exp or trigonometric functions)
DHMO: If that's the closed form of the given series, then its limit will be 1/2, but... isn't 1/(x+1)^2 continuous at x=1 thus it is not really representing the neighbourhood of x=1 for the power series p(x)?