Created Probate section PMH 07 effective by July 1, 2025 and directed transfer of selected pending estate cases. Judge Nushin G. Sayfie holds PMH 07 per the 7/1/2026 directory.
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • Any case currently undergoing a bifurcated hearing shall not be transferred. Bifurcated hearings refer to proceedings where legal arguments or evidence have begun but are not yet complete. • Any case in which the current judge has held a hearing in which legal argument or evidence was presented and has taken the matter under advisement, but has yet to issue an order or judgment, shall not be transferred.
Any case currently undergoing a bifurcated hearing shall not be transferred. Bifurcated hearings refer to proceedings where legal arguments or evidence have begun but are not yet complete.
Reviewer note: | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. 8 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.