Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania Document Format Requirements

CRITICALCivil cases

The rule to show cause must substantially follow the form prescribed by Bucks County R.C.P. 1920.72*(d).

The rule shall be substantially in the form prescribed by Bucks County R.C.P. 1920.72*(d).

CRITICALCivil cases

Counsel must complete every part of the Certificate of Adoption except Part IV, follow the specified name and birth-date formats, and leave Part IV for the clerk.

All parts except Part IV shall be completely filled in by counsel for petitioners. Item five shall have the child's family or given name in capital letters. In Item six of said form the date of birth shall be set forth in Arabic numerals and for computer handling by the Department of Health must contain six digits. Therefore, for the months of January through September, a zero shall be added as part of the month. The clerk will complete part IV of said form.

CRITICALCivil cases

Motions and rules must be in writing.

A motion or rule shall be in writing

CRITICALCivil cases

Applies to

Evidence of deposit or investment

Evidence of an authorized deposit or investment must be marked to indicate the restriction and promptly filed with the clerk.

Evidence of the deposit or investment marked to indicate the restriction, shall be promptly filed with the clerk.

CRITICALCivil cases

Specified adoption-related petitions, orders, decrees, and reports must use the forms in the most recent edition of the Bucks County Bar Association Orphans' Court Section Manual.

Petitions, orders and decrees for adoption, relinquishment, confirmation of consent and termination of parental rights, as well as reports of intention to adopt and reports of intermediaries shall be filed in the forms contained in the most recent edition of the Bucks County Bar Association Orphans' Court Section Manual on Practices and Procedures before the Register of Wills and in the Orphans' Court Division.

CRITICALCivil cases

The application must substantially follow the referenced form and propose a deadline for filing pre-hearing statements.

The application for hearing shall be substantially in the form set out in the Bucks County Rule 1920.74*(c) and shall propose a deadline for filing of pre- hearing statements.

CRITICALCivil cases

The rule to show cause must be substantially in the form prescribed by Bucks County R.C.P. 1920.72*(d).

(b) The rule shall be substantially in the form prescribed by Bucks County R.C.P. 1920.72*(d).

CRITICALCivil cases

A motion to strike must substantially follow the referenced form and be filed within 10 days after service of the application.

A motion to strike shall be substantially in the form set out in Bucks County Rule 1920.74*(d), and shall be filed within 10 days of service of the application for hearing.

CRITICALCivil cases

Format

PDF

Documents requiring signatures from multiple parties, including counterparts, must be manually signed, scanned in PDF format, and attached to or included with the electronically filed paper.

(d) Documents requiring the signatures of more than one party, including documents signed by more than one party in counterparts (e.g., stipulations) shall be manually signed, scanned in .pdf format, and attached to or included as part of the electronically filed legal paper.

CRITICALCivil cases

Legal papers requiring action by a judge must have a backer at least 8½ by 11 inches.

All legal papers requiring action by a judge shall be backed with a backer at least 8 ½ inches by 11 inches in size.

CRITICALCivil cases

Format

PDF

Legal papers filed electronically must be presented in PDF format.

All legal papers to be electronically filed shall be presented in portable document format (“.pdf”).

CRITICALCivil cases

Format

PDF

Verifications, affidavits, and other included documents signed by someone other than the filing party must be manually signed, scanned in PDF format, and attached to or included with the electronically filed paper.

(c) Verifications, affidavits and any other documents included in an electronically filed legal paper that are signed by a person other than the filing party shall be manually signed, scanned in .pdf format, and attached to or included as part of the electronically filed legal paper.

CRITICALCivil cases

Documents filed by mail or hand delivery with an inserted signature image or digitally reproduced or created signature will not be accepted or acted upon.

Documents submitted to the Prothonotary for filing via mail or hand delivery that contain an electronically stored and inserted image of, or a digitally reproduced or created copy of, the signature of the filing party, will not be accepted for filing or acted upon by the Court.

CRITICALCivil cases

AND NOW, this 24TH day of Ludy, 1983, effective March 7, 1983, and applicable to all actions commenced on or after that date and to pending actions in which the respondent to the Complaint has not filed said forms, the forms suggested by Pa.R.C.P.§1910.26(c). shall be on the form attached hereto.

AND NOW, this 24TH day of Ludy, 1983, effective March 7, 1983, and applicable to all actions commenced on or after that date and to pending actions in which the respondent to the Complaint has not filed said forms, the forms suggested by Pa.R.C.P.§1910.26(c). shall be on the form attached hereto.

CRITICALCivil cases

Legal papers filed by mail or hand delivery must bear the filing attorney’s or party’s original handwritten signature, subject to the stated exception.

Except as permitted by subsection (b) below, all legal papers submitted to the Prothonotary for filing via mail or hand delivery shall bear the original handwritten signature of the filing attorney or party (“the filing party”).

CRITICALCivil cases

All notices must be in writing.

(a) All notices shall be in writing.

CRITICALCivil cases

The praecipe must substantially follow the form in Bucks County Rule of Civil Procedure 208.3(b)(7).

The praecipe shall be substantially in the form set forth in Bucks County Rule of Civil Procedure 208.3(b)(7).

CRITICALCivil cases

Agreed Case Management Orders must substantially follow the Court-approved form available at the stated URL.

Such agreed Case Management Orders shall be substantially in the form approved by the Court and available at http://buckscounty.org/Courts/DocketForms.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Documentary exhibit

Format

PDF

For an intended documentary exhibit over 200 single-sided pages, the proponent must convert it to PDF, store it on portable media, and place the media in an envelope no larger than 8.5 by 11 inches.

Where any intended documentary exhibit exceeds 200 pages (single sided) in length, the proponent shall cause the exhibit to be converted into a portable document file (“pdf”) and stored on a portable media device. For purposes of submission to the Court and retention, the proponent shall place the portable media device in an envelope not to exceed 8.5 x 11 inches in size bearing a label or containing a separate sheet of paper describing the contents of the portable media device, which description shall include at minimum:

WARNINGCivil cases

If an answer needs more space, use the reverse side or attach an additional sheet that identifies the interrogatory.

If additional space is required for answers, either use the reverse side of said paper or attach an additional sheet of paper appropriately marking said Interrogatory.

WARNINGCivil cases

(b) Trial by a jury of twelve members rather than eight may be had if demand therefor, either by endorsement on a pleading or by a separate writing, be made by any party not later than twenty (20) days after service of the last permissible pleading.

(b) Trial by a jury of twelve members rather than eight may be had if demand therefor, either by endorsement on a pleading or by a separate writing, be made by any party not later than twenty (20) days after service of the last permissible pleading.

INFOCivil cases

Photocopies bearing the filing party’s original handwritten signature may be accepted for filing as permitted by Pa.R.C.P. No. 205.3(a).

Photocopies of legal papers bearing the original handwritten signature of the filing party will be accepted for filing as permitted by Pa.R.C.P. No. 205.3(a).