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Timeline - An Appealable Order is Entered in the Trial Court

AN APPEALABLE ORDER IS ENTERED IN THE TRIAL COURT

     What constitutes an appealable order?
     No order of a court shall be appealable until it has been entered upon the appropriate docket in the lower court. Pa.R.A.P. 301(a).
     Generally, an appeal may be taken only from a final order unless otherwise permitted by rule or statute. McCutcheon v. Philadelphia Electric Co., 788 A.2d 345 (Pa. 2002).
     A final order is any order that disposes of all claims and all parties, is expressly defined as a final order by statute, or is entered as a final order with an express determination that an immediate appeal would facilitate resolution of the entire case. Pa.R.A.P. 341(b).
     An appeal may be taken as of right from certain types of designated interlocutory orders. See Pa.R.A.P. 311.
     An appeal may be taken from an interlocutory order by permission pursuant to Chapter 13 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure. See Pa.R.A.P. 312; 1311; 42 Pa.C.S. � 702(b).
     An appeal may be taken as of right from a collateral order, which is (1) separable from and collateral to the main cause of action; (2) where the right involved is too important to be denied review; and (3) the question presented is such that if review is postponed until final judgment in the case, the claim will be irreparably lost. Pa.R.A.P. 313.
     Certain types of Orphan's Court orders are appealable upon entry. See Pa.R.A.P. 342.