ADM 2022-1026
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Judicial Department, pursuant to the authority vested in it,
DOES HEREBY, effective November 15, 2022, amend Part 1015.17 of Title 22 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York, as follows (additions in text are indicated by underlining and deletions by strikethrough):
22 NYCRR 1015.17
Section 1015.17. Attorney’s affidavit in agency and private placement adoptions
(a) Every attorney appearing for an adoptive parent, a natural parent, or an adoption agency in an adoption proceeding in the courts within this judicial department, shall, prior to the entry of an adoption decree, file with the Office of Court Administration of the State of New York, and withthe court in which the adoption proceeding has been initiated, a signed statement under oath setting forth the following information:
(b) Names or other information likely to identify the natural or adoptive parents or the adoptive child are to be omitted from the information to be supplied in the attorney's statement.
(c) Such statement
shall be filed by electronic transmission in a manner directed by the chief administrative judge and approved by the presiding justice of the Appellate Division.
may befiled personally by the attorney, or his representative, at the main office of the Office of Court Administration in the City of New York, and upon such filing he shall receive a date-stamped receipt containing the code number assigned to the original so filed. Such statement may also befiled by ordinary mail, addressed to:Office of Court Administration--Adoption Affidavits Post Office Box No. 2016 New York, NY 10008
(d) All statements filed by attorneys shall be deemed to be confidential, and the information therein contained shall not be divulged or made available for inspection or examination to anyperson, other than the client of the attorney in the adoption proceeding, except upon written order of the presiding justice of the Appellate Division
See https://ad4.nycourts.gov/rules for the complete text of
22 NYCRR 1015 Fourth Department Rules Governing Attorneys
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