FAIR HEARING REQUEST FORM
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This form can be used to request a Fair Hearing. You have a right to request a Fair Hearing to challenge virtually any action (or lack of action) that the Social Services agency takes on your request for benefits (welfare, food stamps, HEAP, child care, Medicaid, and other programs). You also have a right to request a Fair Hearing if Social Services makes a change to benefits that you already get, and you disagree with that change.
By: The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
Request an Adjournment or Reopening
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If you are unable to attend your scheduled hearing and your hearing date hasn't passed yet, you may request a new hearing date. Click on this link for information on how to request an adjournment
By: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
Printable Form for Requesting a Fair Hearing Adjournment/Reopening
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Print, complete, fax or mail this form to request an adjournment/reopening of your fair hearing
By: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
Request Compliance With a Fair Hearing Decision
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If you have received a fair hearing decision that says that your local agency should do something and you believe that they haven't done it, you may submit a Compliance Complaint to us.
By: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
FORM - Request for Compliance
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You can use this form if you feel that the local social service agency has not followed your Fair Hearing Decision
By: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
ONLINE FORM: Appeal a disability decision online
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If your Social Security Disability application has been denied, click here to appeal the decision online.
By: Social Security Administration
INTERACTIVE FORM: Affidavit to Vacate a Default Judgment in a Consumer Debt Case
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This free and easy program makes papers that help you tell a judge why you missed your court date or didn't answer a complaint in a consumer
debt case.
By: New York State Unified Court System
Sample Cease Letter
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Are debt collectors constantly calling you? Do you feel harassed by these calls? You can stop debt collection calls by sending a "cease letter" to the debt collector stating that you want them to stop contacting you. Here is an easy-to-use sample letter that you can type into directly or that you can print and fill out by hand.
By: Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project
INTERACTIVE FORM: Collection Agency "Stop Contact" Letter
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The Fair Debt Collections Practices Act gives you the right to send a letter to a collection agency telling them to stop contacting you. The letter can also point out billing mistakes and request verification of the debt (such as a copy of the contract that you signed). You can write a "stop contact" letter now using this interactive form.
By: Legal Aid Network of Kentucky
Video: New York City Small Claims Form Instructions Video
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This is an overview of how to complete the SC50 Small Claims Statement of Claim form.
By: New York State Unified Court System
Read this in:
Chinese / 中文
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Russian / Pусский
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Spanish / Español
INTERACTIVE FORM: Online NYC Nonpayment Tenant Answer Program
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This on-line, interactive program will give you information and help you prepare to answer a New York City nonpayment petition if you live in rent-stabilized or NYCHA housing.
By: Civil Court of the City of New York, with LawNY®
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
INTERACTIVE FORM: Tenant Affidavit (Order to Show Cause) to Vacate a Default Judgment
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This free and easy program should be used only if you already have a judgment against you from the New York City Housing Court. The program will ask questions that help you prepare a document that tells a judge why you missed your court date, or didn't answer a non-payment or holdover case in Housing Court. When you finish the program, you can print the document called an "Affidavit in Support of an Order to Show Cause" which you should give to the Clerk in the Housing Court. The Affidavit asks the judge to let you come back to court (i.e. restore the case to the Court calendar).
To access this interactive form, click on the "Go to form" tab.
By: NYC Housing Court
Information on Answering a Notice of Petition and Petition (Eviction/Dispossess Papers for Non-Payment of Rent)
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If you are in court for a "Non-Payment" case, because the Landlord claims you owe rent, you have the right to tell the Court the reason(s) why the rent may not be owed. Here are some reasons, called defenses, which the
Court can consider in deciding how much rent you may owe to your Landlord.
By: New York State Unified Court System
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Divorce Resources
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This site provides information on obtaining a divorce in New York State. Here you will find general information and free divorce forms with instructions.
By: New York State Unified Court System
INTERACTIVE FORM: Family Court Paternity Petition Program
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Paternity means fatherhood. You can use this free program to write a paternity petition. After you file the petition, there will be a hearing in Family Court to decide who is the child's biological father.
By: New York State Unified Court System
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
INTERACTIVE FORM: Online Support Modification Program
(Separate Website)
You can use the Support Modification Petition to ask (or "petition") the Family Court to change a support order if there is a "change in circumstances." This program will help you fill out the petition that you will need to file in Family Court.
By: New York State Unified Court System
INTERACTIVE FORM: Family Court Support Enforcement/Violation Petition
(Separate Website)
You can use the Support Enforcement/Violation Petition, if the support order is not being followed. This free program will help you fill out the petition that you will need to file in Family Court.
You can use this program:
- If you already have a support order signed by a judge.
- If you are the one who receives the support payment.
- If no person on the support order gets public assistance.
By: New York State Unified Court System
For order of protection forms and information, click here
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PLEASE NOTE: You may want to speak with a lawyer before you file for an order of protection.
INTERACTIVE FORM: Online Name Change Program for Adults (NYC)
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Click here for the Court's free and easy interactive computer program to complete an adult name change petition.
By: New York State Unified Court System
INTERACTIVE FORM: Name Change Program for Minors (NYC)
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This free and easy program helps parents and guardians make a petition to change the name of one or more minor child. When you finish the program, you can print your New York City Minor Name Change Petition. The program will tell you how to file it in the courthouse to change the minor's name.
By: New York State Unified Court System
INTERACTIVE FORM: Online Small Estate Affidavit Program
This interactive interview will help you fill out an Affidavit of Voluntary Administration. You can use this form to divide the property of someone who died. You can only use this form if the person who died had less than $30,000 worth of property.
By: Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.® - Geneva Office
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Power of Attorney: New York Statutory Short Form Your Power of Attorney is an important document. As the "principal," you give the person whom you choose (your "agent") authority to spend your money and sell or dispose of your property during your lifetime without telling you.
By: City Bar Justice Center - Elderlaw Project
Power of Attorney: New York Statutory Gifts Rider - Authorization for Certain Gift Transactions This OPTIONAL rider allows you to authorize your agent to make gifts in excess of an annual total of $500 for all gifts described in (I) of the Grant of Authority section of the statutory short form Power of Attorney (under personal and family maintenance), or certain other gift transactions during your lifetime.
By: City Bar Justice Center - Elderlaw Project
INTERACTIVE FORM: Tenant Affidavit to Restore Case to Calendar Program
(Separate Website)
Use this form if you need to go back to housing court to ask the judge to do something more on your case such as 1) give you more time to do what you promised to do, or 2) get the landlord to do what they promised to do or 3) for any other reason directly related to your housing case. Before you start filling out this form, it?s best to have the paper you signed in front of you so you can copy certain information the form asks you to provide. If this isn?t possible, you need to know who is suing whom in the case so the court can find the case in their records.
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