{"id":12273,"date":"2026-04-05T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12273"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:20:18","slug":"denial-of-discovery-upheld-motion-for-recusal-untimely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12273","title":{"rendered":"Denial of Discovery Upheld; Motion for Recusal Untimely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A litigant cannot complain about a lack of opportunity to conduct discovery when the litigant never petitioned the Orphans&#8217; Court for leave to conduct discovery, as required by local rules.  A motion for recusal is not timely when it is made after the court has issued a final decree.  <em>In re: Mitchell E. and Karlie M. Roth Irrevocable Trust<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S44011-25m%20-%20106733671352896518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1409 EDA 2024<\/a> (Pa. Super. 4\/1\/2026) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A litigant cannot complain about a lack of opportunity to conduct discovery when the litigant never petitioned the Orphans&#8217; Court for leave to conduct discovery, as required by local rules. A motion for recusal is not timely when it is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12273\">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":[34],"tags":[152,730],"class_list":["post-12273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-discovery","tag-recusal-of-judge","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273","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=12273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12275,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions\/12275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}