Procedure Miscellaneous

PROCEDURE

11-8.17 Miscellaneous

The mother claimed that the trial court erred when it accepted the father’s physician’s information request form into the record and used its contents to find the father disabled; further, the trial court did not grant her, or her attorney, the opportunity to review the document prior to the trial. In order to preserve an issue for appellate review, the party must make a timely and specific objection at the appropriate stage of the proceedings before the trial court. Failure to timely object to a basic and fundamental error will result in the waiver of that issue. The mother failed to object to admission of the physician’s information at the de novo hearing. The trial court recognized the physician’s information request as a classic hearsay statement, to which the mother bore the  burden of objecting. Since the mother failed to do so, she failed to preserve this issue for appeal. Summers v. Summers, 35 A.3d 786 (Pa.Super. 2012).