INTERACTIVE FORM: Online NYC Nonpayment Tenant Answer Program
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
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.
Information on Answering a Notice of Petition and Petition (Eviction/Dispossess Papers for Non-Payment of Rent)
(Separate Website)
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
Video: New York City Small Claims Form Instructions Video
(Separate Website)
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
,
Russian / Pусский
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Spanish / Español
INTERACTIVE FORM: Affidavit to Vacate a Default Judgment in a Consumer Debt Case
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
Divorce Resources
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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)
(Separate Website)
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)
(Separate Website)
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
FAIR HEARING REQUEST FORM
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
If your Social Security Disability application has been denied, click here to appeal the decision online.
By: Social Security Administration
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
Other Formats:
Separate Website
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: Online NYC Nonpayment Tenant Answer Program
(Separate Website)
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
(Separate Website)
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
What You Can Do About Illegal Evictions
(Separate Website)
This fact sheet discusses illegal evictions, where the landlord doesn't go to Housing Court. It describes what steps you can take if you have been illegally evicted.
By: South Brooklyn Legal Services (A Program of Legal Services NYC)
Tenants: Don't Move
Information on how to protect yourself against illegal evictions.
By: Goddard Riverside Community Center/SRO Law Project
Read this in:
French / Français
,
Spanish / Español
Tenant Rules to Remember
(Separate Website)
Important information for tenants about illegal evictions and other unlawful landlord acts.
By: Goddard Riverside Community Center/SRO Law Project
Don't Be Locked Out!
(Separate Website)
Information on how to protect yourself if your landlord has locked you out of your apartment, SRO or rooming house.
By: Goddard Riverside Community Center/SRO Law Project
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Fact Sheet #32 - Eviction
(Separate Website)
In New York State, an eviction of a tenant is lawful only if an owner has brought a court proceeding and obtained a judgment of possession from the court
By: New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Eviction Notice From a Marshal
(Separate Website)
Explains when the marshal can come to evict you.
By: City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court
Stopping Your Eviction
(Separate Website)
Information on what steps to take to try to stop your eviction if you have been served with a marshal's notice.
By: South Brooklyn Legal Services (A Program of Legal Services NYC)
Read this in:
Haitian Creole / Kreyòl ayisyen
,
Russian / Pусский
12 Things You Should Know
(Separate Website)
These are basic rights that you have in housing court.
By: City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court
How to Prepare for a Landlord-Tenant Trial
(Separate Website)
A guide to what you can expect during a landlord-tenant trial, and how you can prepare yourself if you do not have a lawyer.
By: Civil Court of the City of New York
Stipulations
(Separate Website)
This is a must-read before going to court on an eviction case. Please look for the section about what should be in the stipulation. Remember: Don't agree to a "final judgment." Talk to the court attorney if necessary.
By: City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court
Top Ten Mistakes Tenants Make in Housing Court
(Separate Website)
Information on what to avoid if you are a tenant involved in a nonpayment case in Housing Court.
By: South Brooklyn Legal Services (A Program of Legal Services NYC)
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Tenant's Guide to Housing Court
(Separate Website)
General information for tenants about housing court and housing cases.
By: City Bar Justice Center
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
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.
Tenant Information on Non-Payment Cases: Answering a Non-Payment Petition
(Separate Website)
Information on what steps to take after you have received a non-payment petition/dispossess.
By: City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court
Read this in:
Chinese / 中文
,
French / Français
,
Hindi / हिन्दी
,
Russian / Pусский
,
Spanish / Español
Non-Payment Proceedings - Tenant Tips
(Separate Website)
A landlord may bring a proceeding in court when you have not paid the rent. This is known as a non-payment proceeding.
By: Nassau/ Suffolk Law Services Committee, Inc
Information on Answering a Notice of Petition and Petition (Eviction/Dispossess Papers for Non-Payment of Rent)
(Separate Website)
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
Eviction Cases That are NOT About Rent (such as Holdovers)
Holdover Proceedings
(Separate Website)
This fact sheet has general information about eviction cases that are brought for reasons other than nonpayment of rent, including possible defenses to such a case.
By: City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court
How do I Keep My NYCHA Apartment?
(Separate Website)
Information on the steps that you can take to avoid being evicted from your Housing Authority home because of the misconduct of someone who lives with you.
By: MFY Legal Services, Inc.
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
How Do I Handle Housing Authority Termination-of-Tenancy Problems?
(Separate Website)
Information on when the Housing Authority can try to terminate (end) your tenancy, and what you can do to try to keep from losing your home in such cases.
By: MFY Legal Services, Inc.
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Companion Animals in NYC Apartments
(Separate Website)
Information concerning your legal rights to keep pets in your apartment, whether you live in private housing or a Housing Authority apartment.
By: City Bar Justice Center
A Tenant's Guide to NYC Pet Laws: Keeping Your Pet in a New York City Apartment
(Separate Website)
This guide will help you understand the laws about pet ownership in New York City.
By: MFY Legal Services, Inc. and Community Access, Inc.
The Only Person Who Can Evict You From An Adult Home is a Judge
(Separate Website)
If you live in an adult home and may have to spend some time at the hospital, here is some information about your rights.
By: MFY Legal Services, Inc.
For information about rent assistance, click here
(Separate Website)
Learn about rent assistance programs such as:
- Emergency assistance
- Section 8
- Advantage (NYC only)
What You Should Know About Emergency Assistance and DSS/HRA
(Separate Website)
If you have an emergency, you may be able to get help from your local Department of Social Service (DSS) office. (If you live in New York City, you can ask for Emergency Assistance from your local Human Resources Administration (HRA) office)
By: Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.® - Geneva Office
Advantage Tenants: The City Will No Longer Pay Advantage Rent
(Separate Website)
Provides information for people with the Advantage Rental Supplement.
By: Legal Aid Society: Homeless Rights Project
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Emergency Rent Assistance (Jiggets/FEPS)
(Separate Website)
Information on eligibility for emergency rental assistance programs: Jiggets and FEPS.
By: Legal Aid Society
Tenants in Foreclosed Homes
(Separate Website)
Your rights if your landlord is facing foreclosure.
By: Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Tenant Rights Where There is a New Landlord
(Separate Website)
Frequently asked questions and answers about a tenant's rights when a new landlord has bought the building.
By: South Brooklyn Legal Services (A Program of Legal Services NYC)
Military Service and Evictions: Protections for Tenants who May be Serving in the Military
A summary of the rules and procedures involving military service and evictions, with information on how this may also affect tenants who are not in the military.
By: Legal Services NYC - Legal Support Unit
Read this in:
French / Français
Recovering rent security deposits and interest in New York City Small Claims Courts
(Separate Website)
The following information is designed to assist consumers considering filing suit in small claims
court to recover rent security deposits or interest. The clerks at small claims court will help you
perform the steps suggested.
By: New York State Attorney General's Office
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Video: How to Work with Interpreters
(Separate Website)
In this video, you will learn some basic tips that will allow you to communicate effectively and easily through an interpreter with a person who doesn't speak your language.
By: Legal Services of New Jersey
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Housing Frequently Asked Questions
(Separate Website)
This resource provides answers to common questions regarding housing issues in NYC.
By: Legal Aid Society
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Beware of Paying Your Rent With Money Orders
(Separate Website)
How you pay your rent can be very important. While money orders seem convenient, they may cause you a lot of problems and in some cases could lead to your eviction.
By: Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.® - Geneva Office
HUD in New York (English and Spanish)
(Separate Website)
Visit this website to get up to date news on housing developments in New York State and services available. This website is also available in Spanish.
By: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
English-Spanish Glossary of Legal Terms & Phrases
(Separate Website)
Complaints About Attorneys
(Separate Website)
If you have a complaint against an attorney, you may contact the Attorney Disciplinary / Grievance Committee. The office you need to contact depends upon the location of your lawyer's office. Click for more information.
By: New York State Unified Court System
Help for Homeowners in Foreclosure
(Separate Website)
If you have trouble affording your mortgage, this page from the N.Y. State Banking Dept. offers assistance via a consumer help hotline and housing counselor program.
By: New York State Banking Department
Obama's Making Home Affordable Plan: Overview for NYC Homeowners
(Separate Website)
An overview of a federal plan that may help some NYC homeowners avoid foreclosure by refinancing or loan modification.
By: Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
What To Do When You Can't Afford Your Mortgage
(Separate Website)
If you have trouble making mortgage payments, this pamphlet from the N.Y. State Banking Dept. provides a time line of what to expect from your lender.
By: New York State Banking Department
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