Contact
Phone: 718-675-8510
Email: [email protected]
Thank you for contacting the guardianship department. In order to best assist you, please watch the videos below to help you get started with the process. These videos are no way meant to provide you legal advice, but simply provide you information so you can make the best decision for your family. Use the mock forms as a guide to assist you completing the forms.
Guardianship Forms and Videos
See videos and forms for Guardianship for an infant or disabled person:
Video
The four videos are topic specific and offer an introduction to the process and general overview, alternatives to 17A guardianship, the review of all the paperwork necessary to file a 17A guardianship and commonly asked questions.
Forms
Fingerprints & Title / Public Searches
Authorization for Guardianship Fingerprints are by Appointment Only.
Title/Public Searches will be permitted during the following hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30 AM-1:00 PM.
Public Searchers will be limited to 1/2-hour segments, no more than two members of the public/persons at-a-time in Room B-3, our RECORDS ROOM. If there are more than two persons, excess individuals will wait in the appropriate hallway seating area outside the record room B-3.
The public searcher will be required to enter the building at the entrance, located at the corner of Schuyler St and Richmond Terrace only, and proceed through the necessary checks and assessments. The Records Room office will be stocked with Lysol Spray, paper towels, hand sanitizer, gloves etc., and you will be required to clean (wipe down) the computer keyboard, mouse, terminal, printer etc., BEFORE and AFTER each appointment. We would also ask that your In-Person business be limited to the Basement Level, Records Rm B-3, the 18 Richmond Terrace facility, and you should take care of any restroom needs prior to your appointment.
The above requirements are consistent with the Rules and Guidelines issued by the Office of Court Administration.