As amended through April 1, 2024
(A) All pleadings, applications, documents and affidavits which are not expressly regulated as to form by Act of Assembly or are forms or documents routinely used or prepared by the courts or court-related agencies, shall conform to the Pennsylvania Rules of Juvenile Court, and to these Rules.(1) The original of all pleadings, applications, documents and affidavits, and any responses thereto, except forms pre-printed by the Court, to be presented to and filed with the Court, shall be securely fastened in a document cover. No original document shall be fastened with staples.(2) Exhibit tabs, if any, shall be placed at the bottom of a document.(3) Filings already of record may be referenced in any subsequent document to be filed, but shall not be attached to the original document to be filed.(B) Any document signed by a party for filing shall contain under the signature line the name, address, and telephone number of the party, and the facsimile number, e-mail address, and Pennsylvania or other state bar identification number, if applicable. When listing the bar identification number, the state's postal abbreviation shall be used as a prefix (e.g., PA 12345; NY 246810).(C) Any party filing an application or other document which requires the signature of a judge or action by the court, including an emergency custody application filed in a dependency action or a dependency petition, shall first file the original document with the clerk of courts. An original proposed order, with a brief title describing the nature of the proposed order (as examples: "Summons", "Order Scheduling Hearing," etc.) shall accompany each document delivered to the Court Administrator for assignment, but shall not be fastened to the other documents.(D) Documents shall not be sent by facsimile to a judge or to the district court administrator without leave of court.Amended effective through 6/1/2021.