What is a petition?
A petition is a form you need to fill out and submit when you are requesting substitutions or academic exceptions that vary from the usual degree requirements. Petitions are available in the Undergraduate Records Office in 139 Reber or you can print a copy from the website at http://www.mne.psu.edu/undergrad/forms.htm.
A petition is a written request to the Academic Standards Board for an exception to a College rule or regulation. A thorough petition should explain specifically why an exception to a rule should be made. You write a letter explaining what you are requesting and giving all relevant circumstances about why an exception is justified. In every case, you need to verify that you should not be expected to fulfill the rule as it applies to everyone in the College. For example, you might ask to change an election from grade to pass/fail . The only basis for the petition is that you can document having processed the election as pass/fail and can show where the system subsequently altered the election not at your request. It isn’t good enough to say that you meant to take the course pass/fail or to show that your friends and your instructor believed you had elected the course pass/fail.
The Petition is the legal paper that asks the court to legally end the marriage and to issue other orders necessary to deal with the spouses’ property, debts, and financial support. If children are involved, the Petition also should include specific requests for custody, parenting time, and child support. The Petition is an important legal document because generally the court cannot give a spouse anything that is not requested and included in the Petition.
The Petition is the legal paper that asks the court to legally end the marriage and to issue other orders necessary to deal with the spouses’ property and debts as well as financial support. If children are involved, the Petition also should include specific requests for custody, parenting time and child support. The Petition is an important legal document because generally the court cannot give a spouse anything that is not requested and included in the Petition. As with all papers filed in court, the form of the Petition must comply with court rules and state laws governing size, spacing and content. Forms available in Self-Service Centers for the Superior Court have been developed to comply with these requirements. Correct forms also are available on the Internet at this website address: http://www.supreme.state.az.us/selfserv/forms.
