THE COURTS
Title 255--LOCAL
COURT RULES
BUCKS COUNTY
Fee Bills, Register of Wills, Clerk of the Orphans' Court Division; No. 35766
[36 Pa.B. 7538]
[Saturday, December 16, 2006]And Now, November 20, 2006, upon consideration of the within petition and upon authority of the Acts of Assembly cited therein,
The Court approves the fee bills of the Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans' Court Division as follows and directs that said fee bills shall take effect thirty days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
DAVID W. HECKLER,
President Judge
BUCKS COUNTY
ORPHANS' COURT FEE BILL
ACCOUNTS
Personal Representative, Trustee and Guardian Accounts Includes Advertising, Adjudication
Accounts But (Advertising Over More Than Included) $ - $ 250.00 $ 25.00 $ 250.00 $ 1,000.00 $ 35.00 $ 1,000.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 50.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 10,000.00 $ 75.00 $ 10,000.00 $ 25,000.00 $ 100.00 $ 25,000.00 $ 50,000.00 $ 150.00 $ 50,000.00 $ 100,000.00 $ 200.00 $ 100,000.00 $ 200,000.00 $ 250.00 $ 200,000.00 $ 300,000.00 $ 350.00
Add $150.00 for each addional $100,000 or fraction thereof Readvertising Accounts $100.00
ESTATES:
AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE $20.00 ANNUAL REPORTS $30.00 ANSWERS $15.00 AUTOMATED COMPUTER PROJECT $10.00 APPEALS: Petitions $65.00 To Supreme or Superior Court (payable to Court) $60.00 From Register of Wills Probate $100.00 BONDS filing $15.00 CERTIFICATIONS: Birth Records (1893 - 1906) $20.00 Death Records (1893 - 1906) $20.00 CITATIONS $40.00 CLAIMS or SATISFACTION OF CLAIM $40.00 COPIES, per page $1.00 DEED, EXECXUTION BY CLERK $20.00 DISCLAIMER $30.00 ELECTION AGAINST A WILL $20.00 EXCEPTIONS $15.00 EXEMPLIFICATIONS OF RECORD $60.00 FAMILY SETTLEMENT $50.00 GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
(Each Name)$25.00 Additonal per page copy charge $1.00 Credit Card Fee $10.00 HEARING RESCHEDULE $30.00 INFORMAL ACCOUNTS $50.00 LIVING TRUST $50.00 MOTIONS $65.00 OBJECTIONS $15.00 PA JCP, State Mandated $10.00 (first filings for petitions for adoptions, intervivos trusts, incapacitated & minors estates) PETITIONS $65.00 PLEADINGS & PAPERS (not requiring court action) $30.00 PRAECIPE $35.00 POWER OF ATTORNEY $40.00 RECEIPT & RELEASE $35.00 RETURNED CHECK FEE $35.00 SATISFACTION OF AWARD $15.00 SCHEDULE of DISTRABUTION $35.00 STIPULATION $15.00 SUBPOENA $20.00 TRUSTEE CERTIFICATES $20.00 ADOPTIONS (PER CHILD):
Petition, Cert. of Adoption, Amended Birth Info. $100.00 Counseling Fee $75.00 Petition to Register a Foreign Adoption $65.00 Petition for Termination of Parental Rights $65.00 Confirmation of Consent $65.00 Putative Father $65.00 Voluntary/Involuntary Relinquishment $65.00 Preplacement fee payable to B.C. Children and Youth $650.00 Report of Intention to Adopt $30.00 Report of Intermediary $30.00 Search, via Petition $65.00 MARRIAGE LICENSES:
Marriage License Application includes Sales Tax & Trust Fund $50.00 Affidavit of Name Verification $10.00 Certification of Marriage $20.00 Consent of Parent or Guardian $10.00 Duplicate Marriage License $10.00 Waiver under Age 16 $35.00 Waiver of 3 day waiting period $35.00 Emergency $35.00 Active Military No Charge BUCKS COUNTY
REGISTER OF WILLS FEE BILL
AFFIDAVIT, filing $20.00 ANSWERS $15.00 AUTOMATED COMPUTER PROJECT $10.00 (all first filings) BOND, filing $15.00 CAVEAT, filing Formal with Bond $100.00 Informal $50.00 Withdrawal $15.00 CERTIFICATION Copy Furnished $20.00 Per Page, if additional copy is not furnished $1.00 Filing and Recording $25.00 Short Certificate $10.00 updating $4.00 CERTIFYING Record to Orphans' Court on Appeal $40.00 CITATION $75.00 Each Additional $10.00 CODICIL $20.00 COMMISSION $50.00 COPIES, per page $1.00 EXEMPLIFICATIONS Issuing, copy furnished $60.00 GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH Each Estate $25.00 Additional, Per Page Copy Charge $1.00 Credit Card Sur Charge $10.00 HEARINGS Court Costs $200.00 Schedule Hearing $300.00 Cancellation or Reschedule Hearing $100.00 INHERITANCE TAX Certification $20.00 Tax Return $25.00 Supplemental return $20.00 706-Federal Estate Tax Return copy $20.00 INVENTORY Original Filing $25.00 Supplemental filing $20.00 LETTERS $75.00 (of Administration DBN or DBNCTA, Special Orders, or Specific orders of probate) OUTSIDE OFFICE SERVICES $80.00 (Affidavits, Oaths, Instruments) Mileage, charge per location $25.00 NON-PROBATE FUNERAL LETTER $20.00 PA JCP (Judicial Computer Project, 1st Filing) $10.00 PLEADINGS AND PAPERS $30.00 PROCESSING FEE $25.00 RENUNCIATIONS $10.00 RETURNED CHECK $35.00 SUBPOENA $20.00 WITNESS AFFIDAVIT $20.00 ESTATE SEARCH & RECORD $35.00
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND TESTAMENTARY
Graduated according to gross value of estate
Letters But not Testamentary Over More Than C.T.A. or Administration 0 250 $ 10.00 250 1,000 $ 15.00 1,000 5,000 $ 50.00 5,000 10,000 $ 75.00 10,000 25,000 $100.00 25,000 50,000 $125.00 50,000 100,000 $150.00 100,000 200,000 $250.00 200,000 300,000 $350.00
Add $150.00 for each addional $100,000 or fraction thereof
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-2444. Filed for public inspection December 15, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]
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