| Telephone inquiries regarding decisions
on motions will no longer be accepted. This information,
as in the past, will be published in the New York Law
Journal. Counsel may appear personally and obtain the
pertinent information required from the computer terminals
made available to the public for that purpose. Any Request
to expedite the signing of an uncontested Judgment of
Divorce must be done by Notice of Motion filed and made
returnable in accordance with matrimonial motion rules.
Matrimonial Mediation Pilot Program
Frequently Asked Questions
Matrimonial Office
Requirements
For Filing Uncontested Divorce Papers
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE
Counsel and Litigants are encouraged to link to the Divorce Resources site, http://www.nycourts.gov/divorce/forms.shtml for forms.
Effective immediately, the Queens Supreme Matrimonial Department shall utilize the Preliminary Conference form listed under "General Forms".
All matrimonial motions must be made
returnable for a Monday. Motions must be filed with the
matrimonial office at least 5 working days before the
return date.
Effective immediately, the filing of all post-judgment matrimonial motions
and orders to show cause must include:
(a) copy of the judgment;
(b) calendar number of the said matrimonial action;
(c) date of the note of issue.
Additionally, all applications for writs of habeas corpus must indicate,
below the present index number, the index number of any previously assigned
action and the assigned judge, or state that no other matrimonial actions
have been filed.
*Notice*
All orders to show cause containing
an application for the issuance of an Order of Protection will
be treated as an emergency and emergency procedures must
be followed. The court is required to conduct a hearing
before issuance of an order of protection, and the applying party and
their attorney, if any, must be present.
Income Deduction
Orders Laws of 1994,
Ch. 170 Sec.358-362, 364-366 Section
5242 CPLR
In all Child Support matters, a competent
income deduction order must be submitted unless a written
alternative agreement is provided.
In accordance with the Family Protection
and Domestic violence intervention Act of 1994, an automated
statewide registry will be operative effective October
1, 1995. The legislation requires that the registry contain
information involving orders of protection and warrants
issued statewide in connection with criminal, Family
Court and matrimonial cases involving family violence.
Effective October 1, 1995, all requests for an order
of protection must be submitted with a completed Family
Protection Registry information sheet. These forms are
available in the matrimonial office, Room 140 in Jamaica
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