New York Supreme Court, Westchester County Filing Rules

Hard-copy proposed orders and judgments submitted for signature on notice will be ignored unless accompanied by the required Affidavit of Service and Notice of Settlement.

Each party must file a compliant pretrial memorandum of law at least seven days before trial begins.

Before placing a document into evidence during a virtual appearance, counsel must exchange it with opposing counsel and confer before the hearing.

A statement estimating the length of trial must be submitted to the Court immediately upon assignment for trial or hearing.

Ordinary motion papers are limited to moving, opposing, and reply papers, but a reply in an Order to Show Cause requires advance permission.

Except for pre-motion conferences, all inquiries regarding motions, including adjournments, must be directed to the Motion Support Office.

A party unable to appear on time because of unforeseen or emergency circumstances must promptly contact the adversary and telephone the Part Clerk.

Counsel must immediately notify the Part Clerk when a translator or interpreter is required for trial.

The court will not consider correspondence raising substantive nonprocedural issues, including adjournments, without approval and will treat it as denied.

After filing an Order to Show Cause, the party may contact the Principal Law Clerk if the submission requires more immediate attention.

A Note of Issue or trial-readiness challenge must be submitted through NYSCEF.

The affidavit documenting mail service on an NYSCEF-opted-out party must be uploaded to NYSCEF.

All documents in mandatory e-filed cases must be filed through NYSCEF.

The Settlement Conference Form must be filed on NYSCEF.

Each motion in limine must be emailed to the Principal Law Clerk and uploaded to NYSCEF no later than seven days before the scheduled trial date.

A motion return date may be adjourned no more than three times and for no more than sixty total days.

Requests to adjourn appearances or extend court-ordered deadlines must be raised at a court conference rather than by letter or email.

A motion conference is not officially adjourned unless the Part Clerk, Confidential Secretary, or Principal Court Attorney communicates the Court's approval.

A motion return date may be adjourned no more than three times and for no more than 60 total days.

A deposition must continue to completion unless the court orders an adjournment or all parties agree that the adjournment will not delay or impede performance or enforcement of the stipulation.

An application to adjourn a TAP motion must be submitted before the scheduled return date.

Reply papers must be served and filed within 10 days after service of opposition papers.

An Order to Show Cause filed through NYSCEF is generally reviewed by the Court on the next business day.

If the court has not filed a so-ordered Compliance Conference Stipulation before the conference, the parties must appear as originally scheduled.

The listed Pretrial or Pre-Hearing Conference materials must be submitted through NYSCEF no later than seven days before the conference.

A preliminary conference must be scheduled if no acceptable executed stipulation is timely uploaded or if a party requests one.

No appearance is required on a motion’s return date unless the court directs one.

Parties may not file motions concerning discovery disputes.

A discovery-related motion cannot be submitted until a pre-motion conference has been requested and held.

Sur-reply papers and motion practice by correspondence are prohibited without express permission from the Court.

Supplemental discovery demands may be served only for items that could not reasonably have been demanded previously and must be served at least 20 days before the disclosure deadline, or 25 days before the deadline when served by mail.

A party seeking discovery must promptly file a Request for Preliminary Conference and, if not already served, serve discovery demands; discovery not timely pursued may be deemed waived.

Counsel must advise the court before jury selection of anticipated exhibits or demonstrative evidence intended for opening statements and provide a copy to opposing counsel.

The movant must serve all decisions, orders, and judgments on counsel, guardians, the Court Examiner, and interested parties within ten days unless the Court directs otherwise.

Requests to adjourn a motion's return date must include notice to all parties.

Papers submitted for the Court’s signature must identify the document on the signature page.

A tabbed Trial Notebook must be provided at the Pre-Trial Conference, with exhibits placed in a separate tabbed binder.

Citations to exhibits longer than 10 pages must identify the page number containing the cited information.

Motion papers and all correspondence must include the index number assigned to the action.

Every uploaded document must be properly identified.

An applicant seeking assignment to the Environmental Claims Part must submit an RJI and a one-page explanatory letter.

The parties must jointly submit the trial transcript, and each party must submit a post-trial memorandum of no more than 25 pages with supporting citations and a proposed final-disposition order or judgment.

The stated word limits do not apply to evidentiary materials such as affidavits, affirmations, or lay- and expert-witness reports.

The pretrial memorandum of law is limited to ten pages.

Unless the Court gives advance permission for good cause shown, briefs and memoranda of law are limited to 30 pages each.

A file-stamped copy of the Note of Issue must be submitted to the Part Clerk within two business days after filing.

Working copies are not being requested at this time.

Working copies are generally not required in e-filed cases, but are required for motions with large records, and filers must ask Chambers when uncertain.

Counsel must provide an additional copy of any order and judgment submitted to conform to the original.

Working copies are generally unnecessary unless the Court directs otherwise.

A foreclosure action cannot be marked settled until the notice of discontinuance and vacatur is filed, the Court grants it, and all applicable fees are paid to the Westchester County Clerk.

No guardianship commissions or professional-service fees may be paid without a prior court order.

Original initiating motion papers submitted to the County Clerk must be accompanied by the required filing fees.

Payment of any required fee at the County Clerk’s Office is required before submitting an Order to Show Cause for signature.

Any required fee for an order to show cause must be paid at the County Clerk’s Office before submission to the Court.

A reply to a cross-motion is prohibited.

Multiple documents may not be grouped under one exhibit, and each exhibit must contain one document uploaded separately through NYSCEF.

Each NYSCEF exhibit must contain one separately uploaded document, and multiple documents may not be grouped under one exhibit.

Oversized papers may be rejected or not considered, and motion papers may include only moving, opposing, and reply papers because sur-reply papers are prohibited.

Motion papers must be bound together, and the Court will not accept loose motion papers, affidavits, affirmations, or exhibits.

Social security numbers and other confidential personal information, including an infant’s full name, must be omitted or redacted; noncompliance results in a sealing order and requires resubmission with proper redactions.

Parties must redact social security numbers and confidential personal information, and where permissible file the redacted document on NYSCEF while simultaneously emailing the unredacted version to the Part Clerk with an explanation of the redaction.

Documents must redact social security numbers and confidential personal information, and noncompliant documents will be sealed and require resubmission with proper redactions.