M & P Management, L.P. v. Williams

OPINION

Justice BALDWIN.

The Superior Court determined that Pa.R.C.P. 2959(a)(3), as amended in 1996 (providing that a petition to strike off or open a confessed judgment must be made within thirty days of receipt of written notice) was intended to eliminate the potential for striking off or reopening judgments after the thirty-day time period announced in the rule, regardless of whether the judgment was void, voidable or valid. A void judgment arises when the court lacks subject matter *491jurisdiction, and a judgment from a court that lacks jurisdiction cannot be made valid through the passage of…