Title 252--ALLEGHENY COUNTY RULES ALLEGHENY COUNTY Rule 1910.6--Entry Appearance; Family Division; Rules Doc. No. 6 of 2002 [32 Pa.B. 2323] Order of Court And Now, to-wit, this 22nd day of April, 2002, pursuant to action of the Board of Judges, the following new local Rule 1910.6 affecting the Family Division of the Court of Common Pleas is adopted, effective thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
ROBERT A. KELLY,
President JudgeLocal Rule 1910.6 Entry of Appearance
(a) Any attorney who files and/or serves a legal paper or appears on behalf of a client in any cause of action in Family Division--Adult Section must complete, file and serve a praecipe for appearance, substantially in the form set forth in (b), identifying the cause or causes of action in which he/she will be acting as counsel and identifying by name the party whom the attorney is representing.
(b) Caption
PRAECIPE FOR APPEARANCE Kindly enter my appearance as counsel for ______
Name of Party*in the above-captioned cases in the following:
______ All matters ______ Divorce (& all claims raised pursuant thereto) Only ______ Support Only ______ Custody Only ______ Protection From Abuse Only ______ Other: ______ Once my appearance is entered, I understand that I must appear at all proceedings and accept service for my client unless I obtain Court permission to withdraw my appearance.
Supreme Court #: ______ Name: ______ Address: ______ ______ Phone #: ______ Date: ______ Signature: __________ *Your client must be identified by name, not solely as Plaintiff or Defendant.
(c) Praecipe of appearance forms shall be available from Domestic Relations Officers, Hearing Officers, Judges' staff, Room 4020, and the Office of the Prothonotary on the 1st floor of the City-County Building.
(d) The attorney must appear at all Family Division proceedings and receive service on behalf of his/her client with respect to all causes of action in which the attorney has indicated on the praecipe for appearance he/she is representing his/her client. If the attorney fails to appear, the court may impose sanctions including but not limited to fines and counsel fees.
(e) Entering an appearance or filing any legal paper in a divorce action obligates the attorney to represent the client in any and all claims or counterclaims which are raised pursuant to the divorce action.
(f) No pro se motions will be accepted involving a cause of action in which a litigant is represented by counsel.
(g) Each attorney shall file and serve a praecipe for appearance with respect to each of his/her cases which are pending as of January 1, 2002.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 02-840. Filed for public inspection May 10, 2002, 9:00 a.m.]
