New York State Unified Court System

This site lets you electronically deliver documents to the courts and –– during the COVID–19 public health emergency –– file documents electronically in many courts that do not usually permit electronic filing. For more detailed information, view the EDDS Notice, the EDDS FAQ page or the EDDS User Manual.

To help you with the delivery of your documents, please choose the location where you would like to send your documents, then follow the screens for additional directions. For information about which legal matters are handled by the various courts of New York State, visit Which court should I go to?

Select the court you want to deliver your documents to:

City Court - Civil (outside NYC)
City Court - Criminal (outside NYC)
Civil Court - New York City
County Court - Criminal Term (outside NYC)
Court of Claims
Criminal Court NYC
District Court - Civil Term (Nassau/Suffolk)
District Court - Criminal Term (Nassau/Suffolk)
Family Court
Nassau - SCARS
Supreme Court - Criminal Term (Inside NYC)
Supreme Court - Civil Term (limited availability for certain courts and case types. Read more ...)

Some Supreme Civil courts have an available E-filing program in one or more case types, as such those case types will not appear in the EDDS drop-down menu for those courts.

Documents in Commercial, Commercial Division, Matrimonial, Other Matter, Other Special Proceeding, Real Property, and Torts can be sent to Allegany, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Orleans, Schenectady, and Schoharie.

No documents may be sent via EDDS (other than the Stipulation and Consent to E-Filing Form) to Albany, Bronx, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Dutchess, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Genesse, Jefferson, Kings, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Nassau, New York, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Queens, Rensselaer, Richmond, Rockland, Saratoga, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne Westchester, Yates.

If you do not see the applicable case type listed for the court above, you may be able to use NYSCEF to file your documents – if all parties consent to have the matter converted to E-filing in accordance with §202.5-b(b)(2)(iv).

How to Convert a paper matter to E-filing All parties to the action or proceeding are required to complete and submit the Stipulation and Consent to E-Filing Form. This form may be sent via EDDS to any of the above courts with an existing e-filing program.

Once the matter has been converted, and is available in NYSCEF parties will receive an email notification.

For questions or assistance with E-filing, please contact the NYSCEF Resource Center.

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Surrogate's Court (limited availability for certain courts and case types. Read more ...)

Some Surrogate courts have an available E-filing program in one or more case types, as such those case types will not appear in the EDDS drop-down menu for those courts.

Documents can ONLY be sent via EDDS in the following courts: Chemung, Clinton, Columbia, Essex, Greene, Hamilton, Lewis, Madison, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Schoharie, Schuyler, St. Lawrence, and Tioga.

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Please Note
  1. A document sent through the Electronic Document Delivery System (EDDS) with a request for filing should be treated as "filed" only upon receipt of notice from the court clerk or County Clerk (or upon publication of notice on a County Clerk web page) that the document has been accepted for filing.
  2. Documents sent via EDDS do not constitute service upon any other party. Documents accepted for filing through EDDS must be served on other parties by electronic means or by mail.
  3. An unrepresented party can use EDDS to send documents to the court, after notifying the court and other parties that they wish to use this method. If EDDS is used, they must serve all such documents on other parties by mail, email, or other electronic means.
  4. EDDS should NOT be used for the delivery of emergency applications except in a Family Court that has been authorized to receive such applications via EDDS, or in a Court where the Judge directs the use of EDDS for that purpose. For more information on filing such applications please contact the court directly. To find contact information for a court go to https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/