N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 22 § 691.23 - Attorney's affidavit in agency and private placement adoptions
(a)
Every attorney appearing for an adoptive parent, a natural parent, or an
adoption agency in an adoption proceeding in the courts within this judicial
department, shall, prior to the entry of an adoption decree, file with the
Office of Court Administration of the State of New York, and with the court in
which the adoption proceeding has been initiated, a signed statement under oath
setting forth the following information:
(1) name of attorney;
(2) association with firm (if
any);
(3) business
address;
(4)
telephone number;
(5) docket number of adoption
proceeding;
(6)
court where adoption has been filed;
(7) the date and terms of every
agreement, written or otherwise, between the attorney and the adoptive parents,
the natural parents, or anyone else on their behalf, pertaining to any
compensation or thing of value paid or given or to be paid, or given by or on
behalf of the adoptive parents or the natural parents, including but not
limited to retainer fees;
(8) the date and amount of any
compensation paid or thing of value given, and the amount of total compensation
to be paid, or thing of value to be given to the attorney by the adoptive
parents, the natural parents, or by anyone else on account of or incidental to
any assistance or service in connection with the proposed adoption;
(9) a brief statement of the
nature of the services rendered;
(10) the name and address of any other
attorney or attorneys who shared in the fees received in connection with the
services, or to whom any compensation or thing of value was paid or is to be
paid, directly or indirectly, by the attorney; the amount of such compensation
or thing of value;
(11) the name and address of any other
attorney or attorneys, if known, who received or will receive any compensation
or thing of value, directly or indirectly, from the adoptive parents, natural
parents, agency, or other source, on account of or incidental to any assistance
or service in connection with the proposed adoption; the amount of such
compensation or thing of value, if known;
(12) the name and address of any other
person, agency, association, corporation, institution, society or organization
who received or will receive any compensation or thing of value from the
attorney, directly or indirectly, on account of or incidental to any assistance
or service in connection with the proposed adoption; the amount of such
compensation or thing of value;
(13) the name and address, if known, of
any person, agency, association, corporation, institution, society, or
organization to whom compensation or thing of value has been paid or given, or
is to be paid or given by any source for the placing out of, or on account of,
or incidental to assistance in arrangements for the placement or adoption of
the adoptive child; the amount of such compensation or thing of value and the
services performed or the purposes for which the payment was made;
and
(14) a brief
statement as to the date and manner in which the initial contact occurred
between the attorney and the adoptive parents or natural parents with respect
to the proposed adoption.
(b) Names or other information likely
to identify the natural or adoptive parents or the adoptive child are to be
omitted from the information to be supplied in the attorney's
statement.
(c) Such
statement may be filed personally by the attorney, or his representative, at
the main office of the Office of Court Administration in the City of New York,
and upon such filing he shall receive a date-stamped receipt containing the
code number assigned to the original so filed. Such statement may also be filed
by ordinary mail, addressed to:
Office of Court Administration--Adoption Affidavits
Post Office Box No. 2016
New York, NY 10008
(d) All statements filed by
attorneys shall be deemed to be confidential, and the information therein
contained shall not be divulged or made available for inspection or examination
to any person, other than the client of the attorney in the adoption
proceeding, except upon written order of the presiding justice of the Appellate
Division.
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