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This CLE is presented by North Penn Legal Services. There is no cost for Bradford County Bar Association Members.

Pennsylvania overhauled the entire Adoption Chapter in its Orphans Court Rules, effective July 1, 2022. This briefly outlines those changes, reviews the reasons for those changes, and highlights some practical issues that have arisen or could arise under the new rules.

PRESENTER BIO
Megan S. Wells, a law school graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, The Dickinson School of Law, maintains a solo private practice in primarily juvenile and family law: Wells Law, PLLC. Her first hearing after passing the bar exam was representing Bradford County Children & Youth Services, and her passion for juvenile law immediately took hold. Since that 2015 hearing, she worked in a small general practice law firm before hanging her own digital shingle in 2019, has represented two Children & Youth agencies, served as Bradford County Child Advocate, served as Mental Health Review Officer for two counties, and represented litigants in all roles in dependency and related orphan’s court proceedings. She is presently Bradford County Mental Health Review Officer, Solicitor for Tioga County Department of Human Services, Children & Youth, and back-up and consult counsel for Bradford County Department of Human Services, Children & Youth. Those contracts often keep her too busy for her private practice, so what little time can be apportioned to that private work today is primarily focused on adoptions.