{"id":10530,"date":"2024-03-29T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2024-12-18T22:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T03:15:50","slug":"proposed-amendments-to-guardianship-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Amendments to Guardianship Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court Procedural Rules Committee has proposed amendments to Pa. Rules of Orphans&#8217; Court Procedure 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, and 14.9 in order to carry out changes to guardianship practice that were made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/li\/uconsCheck.cfm?yr=2023&amp;sessInd=0&amp;act=61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act of December 14, 2023, P.L. 446, No. 61<\/a> (&#8221;Act 61&#8221;), which will be effective June 11, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Act 61 made reforms in the mandatory appointment of counsel, certification of guardians, consideration of less restrictive alternatives before the appointment of a guardian, and scheduling review hearings when there may be a change in capacity.  While these changes were largely self-executing, the committee believed amendments to the procedural rules were warranted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comments to the proposed rules should be submitted by email (which is preferred) or regular mail by May 1, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Proposed Amendment of Pa.R.O.C.P. 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, and 14.9,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol54\/54-13\/422.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">54 Pa.B. 1654<\/a> (3\/30\/2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Update: Changes based on these proposals were adopted on 12\/18\/2024.  See &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11134\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"55\">Amendments to Guardianship Rules and Forms<\/a>.&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court Procedural Rules Committee has proposed amendments to Pa. Rules of Orphans&#8217; Court Procedure 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, and 14.9 in order to carry out changes to guardianship practice that were made by the Act of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10530\">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":[141,473],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-regulations","tag-guardianship","tag-pa-o-c-rules","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","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=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11143,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/11143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}