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I would also suggest a cover letter, listing your complete mailing address, phone number and email address(optional) if the court needs to get in touch with you. "You should send your petition, proposed order and supporting exhibits to the Chief Clerk's Office. Paperwork should be sent directly to a judge only after the case has been assigned to that judge." NY 14202 because the application must first be logged in so that Supreme Court has a record of receiving the application and for tracking purposes. Your petition should be sent to the Chief Clerk's Office at 25 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo. "Your petition would go the Supreme Court Civil Special Term Judge not the County Special Term Judge. Who knows, maybe I would not even need to appear before him. He may require that I "serve" the Vital Records Office or not. Regarding serving the Vital Records Office, I suggest you include a cover letter asking the judge if it is required to serve them."īased on this, and I followed up with more questions, it sounds like I can send a cover letter, a copy of the Petition, and a copy of the Proposed Order to the Special Term Judge, which now for Erie County appears to be Judge D'Amico. The petitioner can by-pass the County Clerk altogether and go straight to the Special Term Judge and take the order directly to Vital Records once the order has been signed. Erie County does not require an index number nor an RJI unless you want the original documents to be on file with the Erie County Clerk. If in Erie County, the address is 25 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo. "As previously stated, the Petition, any supporting documentation and proposed order need to be submitted to the Chief Clerk's Office of Supreme Court in the county where your grandfather was born. What I am uncertain about is how to file a RJI (request for judicial intervention) and how to obtain an index number and whether I will need to do anything to issue a summons to the clerk of Buffalo, as suggested on various blog sites. I think from various things I found on the web, I can put together both a Petition and a proposed Order. Once you have prepared your petition & proposed order, they need to be submitted to the Chief Clerk's Office of Supreme Court in the county where your grandfather was born. This office does not have any pre-printed forms for such a matter. Since you want to do this without the assistance of an attorney, you also must prepare a proposed Order for the Judge to sign if your application is approved. You may want to attach any documents you may have supporting your reasons for your request for a Supreme Court Order. "In order to obtain a court order you must prepare a Petition, which outlines you were are, what the relationship is to the person whose birth record you want, along with the purpose for the record. From the court web site, it seems that they are the only court that can order the government to take some action. The person at the City Clerk's Office in Buffalo said that it would need to be a State Supreme Court order. I first emailed a help desk at the NY State Supreme Court of Erie County. So I'm going to try to compile together the information I get on obtaining and putting together that court order. For some reason, I was able to get that a while back but I need a court order to obtain a certified copy (see below). I have a genealogical copy of my grandfather's birth certificate.
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