Rule 3209.Objections to bond.

This rule is the court’s check on the interpleader bonds. On a party’s petition, after notice and a hearing, the court may review whether the prothonotary was right to approve or reject the security, increase or decrease the amount of a bond or require additional security for cause, strike a bond that was improperly filed, or permit substitution of a new bond and exonerate the old one.

Because the bonds set at double the property’s value carry real consequences for both the claimant and the creditor, the rule lets either side ask the court to correct the security if it is wrong.