Introduction to the PA Supreme Court Orphans' Court Rules

This section of the web site contains the PA Supreme Court Orphans' Court Rules.  

For ease of navigation, links are present between rules, sections, appendices and cross-references to sections of PA Title 20, the Probate, Estates & Fiduciaries Code.

Note: this HTML version of the PA Supreme Court Orphans' Court Rules contains HTML versions of court forms, the Fiduciary Accounting Standards Appendix, Model Executor's Account and Model Trustee's Account.

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