New York State

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• New York State
• Child Support
• Petition E-Filing Process
• New York State Center for Child Well Being

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E-filing Benefits

• Eliminates need for a paper document transfer
  process between CSEU and Family Court
• Eliminates need for data entry of same
  information by both CSEU and Family Court staff
• Synchronizes case and party information in both
  systems
• Reduces delay between petitioner appearance in
  the CSEU office and court docketing

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NYS Child Support Program

• A state-supervised, locally administered program
• State office The Center for Child Well Being
  within the Office of Temporary and Disability
  Assistance
• 58 local district Child Support Enforcement
  (CSEU) offices, one in each county, staffed by
  County employees.
• 63 Family Courts that hear child support
  petitions, each part of the Statewide Office of
  Court Administration.

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Systems

• Automated State Support and Enforcement Tracking
  System (ASSETS)
• OTDA system used by 2,700 State and County
  employees
• Uses Child Support Case Number as an identifier
• Unified Court Management System (UCMS)
• NYS Office of Court Administration (OCA) system
  used by staff of the 63 court locations and state
  OCA staff.
• Uses Family File Number (FFN) as an identifier

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Family Court Interface (FCI)

• Interface between ASSETS and UCMS
• Key actions happen on both sides in sequence
• Utilizes XML messages to exchange information
• XML schema jointly developed by DCSE and OCA
• XML schema based on LegalXML Court Filing Query
  and Response proposed standards

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Family Court E-Filing Process
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E-filing - Child Support Actions

• User enters info on ASSETS Support Petition
  assessment page
• Using ASSETS, user searches UCMS to see if a
  Family File Number (FFN) exists for parties.
• User compares ASSETS and UCMS parties and sets
  UCMS Role for each
• e.g. petitioner, respondent, child

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E-filing - Child Support Actions

• User enters additional petition info
• User selects court date
• ASSETS generates/validates XML message and
  E-filing ID number

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E-filing - Court Actions

• UCMS receives/validates message
• If a FFN exists UCMS is updated, otherwise UCMS
  builds a new FFN using ASSETS info
• UCMS dockets and schedules petition
• UCMS returns FFN, docket and appearance date to
  ASSETS

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E-filing - Child Support Actions

• User generates petition using ASSETS Document
  Generation
• Client electronically signs petition
• ASSETS generates and sends XML message containing
  the petition document

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E-filing Process- Completion

• UCMS returns confirmation a with a summons and
  financial affidavit
• ASSETS saves all documents into Electronic
  Document Repository and updates child support
  case statuses

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For further information

• Chas Ackley
• Bureau Chief, Program Operations
• E-mail Charles.Ackley_at_dfa.state.ny.us
• Karen Sicurelli
• Child Support Specialist, Program Operations
• E-mail Karen.Sicurelli_at_dfa.state.ny.us