{"id":12348,"date":"2026-05-22T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12348"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:22:52","slug":"proposed-amendments-to-o-c-rules-for-guardians-ad-litem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12348","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Amendments to O.C. Rules for Guardians ad Litem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Orphans&#8217; Court Procedural Rules Committee has published proposed amendments for the appointment of guardians ad litem, and counsel for those guardians, when there is a conflict between the legal interests and best interests of an incapacitated person.  (The comments to the proposed rule explain that there may be a conflict between what the incapacitated person has a legal right to want and what may be in his or her best interests.)  &#8220;Proposed Amendment of Pa.R.O.C.P. 5.5 and 14.4,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol56\/56-21\/717.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">56 Pa.B. 2974<\/a> (5\/23\/2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court Procedural Rules Committee has published proposed amendments for the appointment of guardians ad litem, and counsel for those guardians, when there is a conflict between the legal interests and best interests of an incapacitated person. (The comments &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12348\">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":[767],"class_list":["post-12348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-regulations","tag-guardian-ad-litem","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348","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=12348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12350,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}