The state Supreme Court, in an oral argument Wednesday, was asked to consider whether Orphans’ Court judges have the equitable power, not possessed by other common pleas judges, to reverse errors made in final declaratory judgments more than 30 days after they are entered.
The answer is controlled by the high court’s interpretation of whether the traditional equitable powers of the Orphans’ Court survived the merger of Orphans’ Court into common pleas courts with the 1968 state constitution’s creation of a unified judicial system.
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