Pa.R.O.C.P. 10.5 has been amended to require that a notice of estate administration be given upon the grant of letters and whenever there is a change in personal representatives, including changes due to the death or resignation of a personal … Continue reading
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Counties have begun updating their local rules to conform to the amendments of Pa.R.O.C.P 1.99 and the Case Records Public Access Policy of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania to require the use of the confidential information form and eliminate … Continue reading
The Supreme Court has amended Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.99 to require the use of “confidential information forms” (and not the filing of redacted documents) to comply with the public access policy in the Orphans’ Court. As explained in the adoption report of … Continue reading
The Supreme Court has approved a number of clarifying amendments to the Electronic Case Record Public Access Policy of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania, some of which will explicitly bring the clerk of the Orphans’ Court and the Guardianship … Continue reading
The Orphans’ Court Procedural Rules Committee has proposed a new Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.20 that would allow the Orphans’ Court to conduct proceedings using “advanced communication technology,” which is defined as “any communication technology providing for two-way simultaneous communication of image and … Continue reading
The Internal Revenue Service has released Rev. Proc. 2021-45 with inflation adjustments for 2022 and, consistent with earlier predictions, the changes in the most significant federal estate and trust planning numbers will be as follows: The base applicable exclusion amount (and generation-skipping tax … Continue reading
If you’ve noticed there have not been email updates in a while, thank you. It’s nice to be missed. The problem I was having is that the emails were starting to be treated as spam by some email servers, which … Continue reading
With the release of the Chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI-U) for August 2021, it’s possible to calculate various inflation adjustments for 2022. The following are the significant federal estate planning numbers, with the numbers for 2021 shown in parentheses: The … Continue reading
Warren and Forest Counties have adopted new local Orphans’ Court rules, to be effective 30 days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. “Local Orphans’ Court Rules; Misc. No. 48 of 2021,” (Warren and Forest Cos. 8/25/2021), 51 Pa.B. 5823 (8/11/2021). … Continue reading
The Orphans’ Court Procedural Rules Committee is considering amendments to a number of Orphans’ Court rules to change references to “master” to “hearing officer.” The purpose of the amendments is to eliminate a term that has “a perjorative connotation” in … Continue reading