Penn. Wash. O.C. Rule 3.2

As amended through June 1, 2022
Rule 3.2 - Filing, Indexing, And Dockets
(a) Each proceeding of the Orphans' Court Division shall be assigned a filing number by the Clerk of the Orphans' Court, which number shall consist of three groups of numbers separated by hyphens, the first group to be "63", the second to be the last two digits of the year of filing, and the third, the number of the proceeding, in numerical order, in the year in which filed. All papers subsequently filed relating to that matter shall bear the same number.
(b) All papers filed with the Register of Wills or Clerk of the Orphans' Court, including Inheritance Tax Returns, shall be indexed in the Electronic Retrieval System
(c) Papers filed with the Register of Wills or Clerk of the Orphans' Court, shall not be removed except by order of court, and petitions and court orders returned to attorneys for filing with the Clerk of the Orphans' Court shall first be docketed by a court officer and then filed promptly by such attorneys.

Penn. Wash. O.C. Rule 3.2