Court Opinion

ID: 9698740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:58:46.942798+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:43.093944
License: Public Domain

ROWLEY, Judge,
concurring:
I join in the Concurring and Dissenting Opinion by Judge Montemuro based upon my understanding of his Opinion as expressed in my Concurring Opinion in the companion case of In the Matter of J.P., 393 Pa.Super.-, 573 A.2d 1057 (1990). In addition, I note that exceptions raising the issue of ineffectiveness of trial counsel were filed in this case by new counsel. Since the instant action for the involuntary termination of parental rights was brought in the Orphans’ Court Division and therefore the Supreme Court’s Orphans’ Court Rules requiring the filing of exceptions to the decree nisi applied to it, Pa.R.O.Ct. 7.1, it presumably was appropriate to file the exceptions in the trial court prior to taking the instant appeal. See In re Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights to B.M.D., 487 Pa. 387, 409 A.2d 404 (1979), and In re Adoption of Hamilton, 362 Pa.Super. 249, 523 A.2d 1176 (1987) (in the absence of a local rule to the contrary, parties must have opportunity to file exceptions to a decree of involuntary termination of parental rights).