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PRACTICEAND PROCEDUREBEFORE THEORPHANS COURTDIVISIONOF THE COURTOF COMMON PLEASOFPHILADELPHIA COUNTYPREFACEThe Rules and PRACTICE Committee of the Probate and Trust Law Section of thePhiladelphia Bar Association offers this revised and expanded edition of PRACTICE and PROCEDURE in the orphans Court Division in Philadelphia County, first prepared as a pamphlet in 1950 by John Blessing who had served for 23years as a law clerk to Judges of the Philadelphia orphans Court. Mr. Blessinglater worked as a Trust Officer for First Pennsylvania Bank, one of thepredecessors to Wachovia Wealth Management which has acted as the sponsorof the Philadelphia Estate Practitioner Handbook in both its print edition and onthe internet at While in short supply, having last been published in1981, this volume is affectionately known by probate lawyers as The Red Book, the last component of the trilogy which comprises the Philadelphia EstatePractitioner was the intent of the original publication, the goal of this volume is toacquaint the newly
The Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas is a court of limited jurisdiction, exercising only those powers expressly granted to the Court by statute or by necessary implication. See Main’s Estate, 322 Pa. 243 (1936). Furthe r, the Orphans’ Court
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