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Where Can I Find ... ?

Where can I find child support guidelines?
Where can I find a petition for striking or opening a judgment?
Where can I find information concerning a name change in Pennsylvania?
Where can I find forms dealing with administrative appeals to courts of common pleas? 
Where can I find forms dealing with appeals from courts for common pleas to appellate courts?

Answers (Links take you to either SOLCAT or to the online version of the resource)

Where can I find Child Support Guidelines?
Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure 1910.16. It can be found in the Pennsylvania Rules of Court: State, 42 Pa.C.S.A. The Rules of Civil Procedure are also available from the online version of the Pennsylvania Code (Title 231) at http://www.pacode.com.

Where can I find a petition for striking or opening a judgment?
See 2 West's Pennsylvania Forms Civil Procedure §26.50.

Where can I find information concerning a name change in Pennsylvania?
See 54 Pa.C.S.A. §§701-702; Form is in Dunlap-Hanna Pa. Forms §§206.01-206.02.

Where can I find forms dealing with administrative appeals to courts of common pleas?
14 Dunlap-Hanna Pa. Forms ch. 230A

Where can I find forms dealing with appeals from courts of common pleas to appellate courts?
14 Dunlap-Hanna Pa. Forms ch. 231