{"id":8771,"date":"2021-09-03T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2021-09-03T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T21:06:15","slug":"changing-master-to-hearing-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8771","title":{"rendered":"Changing &#8220;Master&#8221; to &#8220;Hearing Officer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court Procedural Rules Committee is considering amendments to a number of Orphans&#8217; Court rules to change references to &#8220;master&#8221; to &#8220;hearing officer.&#8221;  The purpose of the amendments is to eliminate a term that has &#8220;a perjorative connotation&#8221; in &#8220;modern parlance outside of court.&#8221;  The term has already been replaced, or is being replaced, in other bodies of rules.  Comments should be submitted to orphanscourtproceduralrules@pacourts.us by September 24, 2021.  &#8220;Proposed Amendment of Rules 1,3, 2.11, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7 and 9.8 of the Pennsylvania Orphans&#8217; Court Rules,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol51\/51-34\/1309.html\">51 Pa.B. 5194<\/a> (8\/21\/2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court Procedural Rules Committee is considering amendments to a number of Orphans&#8217; Court rules to change references to &#8220;master&#8221; to &#8220;hearing officer.&#8221; The purpose of the amendments is to eliminate a term that has &#8220;a perjorative connotation&#8221; in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8771\">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":[473],"class_list":["post-8771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-regulations","tag-pa-o-c-rules","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771","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=8771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}