Tax Dept: E-filing at all-time high
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 9, 2013
Tags: e-filing, personal income tax returns, Taxation and Finance, taxpayers
Thomas H. Mattox, New York state commissioner of Taxation and Finance has announced that, as of the end of April, 87 percent of taxpayers had e-filed their personal income tax returns. More than 7.9 million taxpayers e-filed their personal income tax returns by the deadline this year — a 200,000 increase over last year. “E-filing [...]
State OKs mandatory e-filing pilot programs 
By Denise Champagne
POSTED: July 20, 2012
Tags: e-filing, expansion, mandatory pilot programs
The electronic filing of court documents will be expanding into certain family and criminal courts under a pilot program authorized in recent legislation, signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti will select up to six counties this fall for mandatory e-filing pilot programs. “We’re very pleased that the governor [...]
Surrogate’s Court gears up for e-filing
By Denise Champagne
POSTED: February 3, 2012
Tags: documents, e-filing, Judge A. Gail Prudenti, Surrogate's Court
Most documents in Monroe County Surrogate’s Court will have to be filed electronically beginning March 1. The court, which has been participating in a voluntary e-filing program since August 2010, will become one of the few in the state where attorneys will be required to e-file all probate and administration proceedings and related miscellaneous proceedings. [...]
Mandatory e-filing expanding
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: January 18, 2012
Tags: e-filing, pilot program, Surrogate's Courts
The mandatory pilot e-filing program will begin in the Surrogate’s Courts of Chautauqua, Erie and Monroe counties, effective March 1. It will apply to all estate proceedings — probate, administration and related proceedings — filed on or after that date. Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti, who announced Jan. 4 that the program would be [...]
7th JD leads state in surrogate’s court e-filing
By Denise Champagne
POSTED: November 2, 2011
Tags: e-filing, Seventh Judicial District, Surrogate's Court
The Seventh Judicial District will be the first in the state to offer electronic filing in all of its surrogate’s courts. It has been available in Monroe County since last August as part of a state e-file pilot project but, this week, expanded to Ontario, Livingston and Wayne counties. “We’re very excited about this opportunity [...]
All rise (or not)! NYC e-court now in session
By The Associated Press
POSTED: July 8, 2011
Tags: e-court, e-filing, new york city, State Supreme Court
NEW YORK — Think the paper piles are deep around your home? Clerks at Manhattan’s state Supreme Court say they’d run out of places to put it. Not to worry. The state now requires lawyers in about 6,000 cases dealing with commercial disputes in the Manhattan courthouse …
State to expand e-filing for court docs
By Denise Champagne
POSTED: June 29, 2011
Tags: Assembly, court documents, e-filing, legislation, Monroe County, New York State, pilot program, state Senate
The electronic filing of court records will expand under new legislation approved last week by the state Senate and Assembly. Joining Monroe and other upstate counties in a pilot program will be Onondaga and Allegany counties and two other counties outside of the Fourth Department.
Do you know what metadata is?
By Denise Champagne
POSTED: September 13, 2010
Tags: bill, e-filing, electronic filling, Gov. David Peterson
A bill that would expand New York’s electronic filing program for certain papers in civil litigation in supreme and other courts is expected to receive the governor’s signature by the end of the week. The legislation will enable Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau …
E-orders of protection to be served
By Denise Champagne
POSTED: August 9, 2010
Tags: e-filing, electronic transmission, Family Court, Monroe County Family Court
What started as a pilot program in nine counties three years ago is now law statewide. Gov. David A. Paterson’s recent authorization of the electronic transmission of family court protection orders to law enforcement for service not only made the pilot permanent immediately …
E-world coming this fall
By Denise Champagne
POSTED: June 30, 2010
Tags: e-filing, Monroe County, Seventh Judicial District
Electronic filing of court records in Monroe County is scheduled to begin this fall with commercial and medical malpractice cases. To get things rolling, the Hon. Thomas Van Strydonck, administrative judge …
Dinolfo named ‘Clerk of the Year’
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 22, 2010
Tags: award, Cheryl Donolfo, e-filing, Monroe County Clerk
Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo was honored this week as “County Clerk of the Year” by the New York State Association of County Clerks.
COA seeks e-filing input
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 7, 2010
Tags: e-filing, electronic filing, New York State Court of Appeals
The New York State Court of Appeals on Monday announced it is considering changes to its rules and procedures to require the filing of electronic copies of all briefs and record materials on appeal, in addition to a number of paper copies to be determined.
