{"id":10099,"date":"2023-11-04T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10099"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T17:35:39","slug":"new-rules-of-construction-for-orphans-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10099","title":{"rendered":"New Rules of Construction for Orphans&#8217; Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a series of orders issued November 3, 2023, the Supreme Court has (a) adopted Rules of Judicial Administration that provide principles of construction for all procedural and evidentiary rules and (b) amended Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.2 (and other civil and criminal rules) to incorporate the new Rules of Judicial Administration.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/report%20-%20105726221245303117.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">combined report of the various rules committees<\/a> state that the purpose of these changes is to &#8220;provide for uniform rules of construction for all procedural and evidentiary bodies of rules.&#8221;  &#8220;In re: Order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/attachment%20-%20105726221245303313.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amending Rule 1.2 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Orphans&#8217; Court Procedure<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/Order%20Entered%20-%20105726221245303371.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No. 966 Supreme Court Rules Docket<\/a>,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol53\/53-46\/1585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">53 Pa.B. 7151<\/a> (11\/18\/2023); &#8220;In re: Order Adopting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/Attachment%20-%20105726083245289865.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rules 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, and 115 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Judicial Administration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/Order%20Entered%20-%20105726083245289803.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No. 600 Judicial Administration 2023<\/a>,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol53\/53-46\/1579.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">53 Pa.B. 7124<\/a> (11\/18\/2023). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of orders issued November 3, 2023, the Supreme Court has (a) adopted Rules of Judicial Administration that provide principles of construction for all procedural and evidentiary rules and (b) amended Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.2 (and other civil and criminal &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10099\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,36],"tags":[798,473],"class_list":["post-10099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-regulations","tag-construction-of-rules","tag-pa-o-c-rules","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}