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Provides elder law, estate planning, and estate settlement services.

Assists low-income clients with Wills, Living Wills, Advance Directives, Memoranda regarding Conduct of Funeral and Burial or Cremation, and Durable Power of Attorney matters.

Provides elder law, estate planning, and estate settlement services.

Oversees both the Clerk of Orphans' Court and the Register of Wills. The duties of the Clerk of Orphans' Court include: filing petitions for incapacitated persons and petitions for the appointment of guardians for minors, petitions for adoptions (which records are confidential), the granting of marriage licenses, and records of births and deaths from 1893 through 1906. This office is also responsible for assisting the Judge of Orphans' Court during court proceedings, as well as the documents pertaining to those proceedings. As register of wills, this office has jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the granting of letters of testamentary and letters of administration.

Issues marriage licenses, handles adoptions and incapacitated filings, and presents first and final account files in the estate to the court. Handles transactions dealing with real estate. Probates the wills of all decedents and issues letters of administration and testamentary in each estate.

Provides elder law, estate planning, and estate settlement services.

The Register and Recorder’s Office is the repository and record manager for all papers relating to wills and estates as well as all real estate transactions. It is responsible for filing all papers in reference to the probate of wills and estates and all other related documents, and collects and processes Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax returns. Also records all documents pertaining to land and property transactions, including deeds, mortgages, leases, financing statements and rights of way.

Provides deeds, wills, and marriage licenses. Offers assistance in obtaining and gathering any needed documents.

Legal services are provided on a limited basis determined by established criteria of the Berks County Area Agency on Aging.

Provides general information regarding the following: Marriage License, Recording of Deeds, Register of Wills, Passports, Prothonotary, Clerk of Courts, Court, and District Attorney.

Provides legal consultation and services from attorneys working pro bono including wills, living wills, healthcare power of attorney for low-income seniors.

Provides residents with the service of deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, releases, rights-of-way, oil & gas leases, and power of attorney documents. Serves as collection agent for Pennsylvania Realty Transfer Tax and accepting agent for US passports. Issues marriage licenses and maintains all adoption and guardianship cases.

Provides comprehensive guardianship services for individuals who have been determined by the Court to be incapacitated and no longer able to make their own life decisions. Through written and notarized Power of Attorney (POA) documents, individuals deemed incapable of making decisions on their own can give JFCS the responsibility and legal power to act on their behalf, according to the terms of the agreement.

Provides marriage licenses, wills, estates, inheritance tax, and adoption forms.

Counsels people on disability-based issues (including public benefits, financial and estate planning), manages affordable special needs trusts, and helps to create support plans with public and private resources for the care of people with disabilities.

Probates wills and appoints representatives for decedents who die with or without a will. The decedent must have been a resident of Allegheny County at the time of death. Also serves as an agent for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for filing and payment of Inheritance Taxes.