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ORPHANS' COURT DIVISION RULE 7.1
Rule 7.1A. Exceptions to Decrees.
(a) General Rule. No later than twenty (20) days after entry of an order, decree or adjudication, a party may file exceptions to any order, decree or adjudication which would become a final appealable order under Pa.R.A.P. 341(b) or 342 following disposition of the exceptions. If exceptions are filed, no appeal shall be filed until the disposition of exceptions except as provided in subdivision (d) (Multiple Aggrieved Parties). Failure to file exceptions shall not result in waiver if grounds for appeal are preserved as provided in subdivision (b) of this Rule.
(b) Waiver. Exceptions may not be sustained unless the grounds are specified in the exceptions and were raised by petition, motion, answer, claim, objection, offer of proof or other appropriate method.
(c) Time for Filing Exceptions. If a party files timely exceptions, any other party may file cross exceptions within ten (10) days after the filing of exceptions.
(d) Multiple Aggrieved Parties. Where more than one party is aggrieved by a final appealable order under Pa. R.A.P. 341(b) or 342, a timely appeal filed by any party supersedes exceptions by any other party and the other shall be submitted directly to the appellate court.
(e) Adoptions and Involuntary Terminations. No exceptions shall be filed to any final order in involuntary termination or adoption matters under the Adoption Act, 23 Pa.C.S. Section 2501, et seq.
(f) Time Limits for Decision on Exceptions. The Orphans' Court shall decide exceptions including supplemental exceptions and cross exceptions within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the filing of the initial exceptions. If the Orphans' Court fails to decide the exceptions within one hundred and twenty (120) days, the exceptions shall be deemed denied by operation of law on the one hundred and twenty first (121st) day and the Clerk is directed to enter the deemed denial on the docket as of that date. The appeal period shall begin to run as of the one hundred and twenty first (121st) day.
(g) Exceptions. Exceptions shall be the exclusive procedure for review by the Orphans' Court of a final order, decree or adjudication. A party may not file a motion for reconsideration of a final order.
(h) Transcript of Testimony. All exceptions shall contain a request designating a portion of the record to be transcribed in order to enable the court to dispose of the exceptions. Within ten days after the filing of the exceptions, any other party may file an objection requesting that an additional, lesser or different portion of the record be transcribed. If no portion is indicated, the transcription of the record shall be deemed unnecessary to the disposition of the exceptions. The trial judge shall promptly decide the objection to the portion of the record to be transcribed.