For many years, Registers of Wills and Clerks of the Orphans’ Courts have been collecting fees usually designated as “JCP” fees for the Judicial Computerization Project (funded by the “Judicial Computer System Augmentation Account” established by Subchapter C of 42 … Continue reading
Category Archives: Statutes
The Act of November 3, 2022, No. 106, P.L. 1691, amends 23 Pa.C.S. § 3323 to require that divorce decrees and annulment orders include a provision advising the parties to reaffirm or change beneficiary designations for life insurance policies, annuity … Continue reading
The Act of November 3, 2022, No. 152, P.L. 2145, amends the Charitable Gift Annuity Exemption Act (No. 127 of 1996) to allow charities to purchase “de-risking annuity contracts” from insurance companies to make the payments required by charitable gift … Continue reading
Section 15.1 of the Act of July 8, 2022, No. 53 (HB 1342), adds a new subsection 2111(u) to the inheritance and Estate Tax Act (72. P.S. §9111(u)) that exempts from inheritance tax the transfer of personal property resulting from … Continue reading
H.B. 262, which eliminates the inheritance tax on all transfers from parents to children who are 21 or younger, also allows revocable trusts to be treated as part of the estate for Pennsylvania income tax purposes if the estate has … Continue reading
The following chart shows the status of legislation introduced in the 2017-2018 session of the Pennsylvania legislature that might be of interest to estate and trust practitioners. Click on the bill number to see the history or text of the … Continue reading
S.B. 1886 was signed into law by Governor Wolf on October 24, 2018, becoming Act 114 of 2018. The act amends 20 Pa.C.S. § 5521(c) to require Clerks of the Orphans’ Court to report delinquencies in the filing of annual reports … Continue reading
S.B. 1885 was signed into law by Governor Wolf on October 24, 2018, becoming Act 113 of 2018. The act amends 20 Pa.C.S. § 3175 to allow Registers of Wills to increase the bonds required of personal representatives after inventories or … Continue reading
S.B. 180 was signed into law by Governor Wolf on October 23, 2018, becoming Act 90 of 2018. The act makes a number of changes to the disposition of decedent’s remains and makes extensive changes to Chapter 86, on anatomical … Continue reading