{"id":9028,"date":"2022-01-21T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:22:44","slug":"master-changed-to-hearing-officer-in-o-c-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9028","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Master&#8221; Changed to &#8220;Hearing Officer&#8221; in O.C. Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Supreme Court has adopted amendments to a number of Orphans&#8217; Court rules to change references to \u201cmaster\u201d to \u201chearing officer.\u201d The purpose of the amendments is to eliminate a term that has \u201ca perjorative connotation\u201d in \u201cmodern parlance outside of court,\u201d and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8771\" target=\"_blank\">the proposed changes were published in August 2021<\/a>.  \u201cOrder Amending Rules 1,3, 2.11, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7 and 9.8 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Orphans\u2019 Court Procedure; 898 Supreme Court Rules Docket\u201d\u00a0(1\/6\/2022), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol51\/51-34\/1309.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">52 Pa.B. 441<\/a>\u00a0(1\/22\/2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has adopted amendments to a number of Orphans&#8217; Court rules to change references to \u201cmaster\u201d to \u201chearing officer.\u201d The purpose of the amendments is to eliminate a term that has \u201ca perjorative connotation\u201d in \u201cmodern parlance outside &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9028\">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-9028","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\/9028","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=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9029,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions\/9029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}