Don’t know how to access your lawsuit on-line in the state civil court system? I teach my class on Financial Fraud in Divorce how to do it, and I’ll show you too. It’s eeeeeeeaasy! While divorce documents can’t be viewed in New York because they are sealed — unlike California and some other states, most other types of documents in civil cases can be viewed on-line.

Even if you are not involved in a lawsuit, there are so many interesting viewable documents available by public access. For example, the President, Donald J. Trump, is a named defendant in a long list of cases against him in New York — all on public display. I will show you how to find case #39, with instructions below. It is one of the more interesting cases — and is ongoing. If you live outside of New York and want to access your legal files, but don’t know how, call the court clerk, who will be able to help you.

HOW TO PUBLICLY ACCESS COURT CASES IN NEW YOK

1. Go to http://www.nycourts.gov (NY State Unified Court System)

and on home page see e-COURTS and click on e-Track

2. click on Webcivil Supreme (you don’t need to register)

3. Party Search

Find New York State Civil Supreme Court cases by party name.

You will see page: WebCivil Supreme

WebCivil Supreme provides online access to information about cases in Civil Supreme Court in all 62 counties of New York State. You may search for cases by Index Number or the name of the Plaintiff or Defendant, look up cases by Attorney/Firm name, and view Calendars for each court. With our eTrack case tracking service you can receive email updates and appearance reminders for Civil Supreme Court cases.

WebCivil Supreme is provided as a FREE public service by the New

York State Unified Court System.

4. click on Agree — sends you to to new page: See:

5. Party Search

Fill in following:

Enter name to search for: Let’s try —

Party Name: DONALD TRUMP

Party Represents: DEFENDANT

Limit Search (if desired) by:

To make your search faster you may wish to limit your search by

County(s) NEW YORK COUNTY

MAKE SURE FOLLOWING ARE CHECKED:

Case status = All

Return cases only with future appearances = No

You will obtain CASE SEARCH RESULTS
Appearing next is the list of cases.

Case #39 is filed 6/14/2018.

Click on the index number and you will see a box on the lower right that says “SHOW E-FILED DOCUMENTS.”

There they are. . . . .

The Verified Petition is very interesting. (You can access it as a pdf too.)

The Caption of the case reads:

The People for the State of New York, by Barbara D. Underwood, the New York Attorney General against Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric F. Trump, and The Donald J. Trump Foundation

The Verified Petition claims that Donald J. Trump used charitable assets to pay off the legal obligations of entities he controlled, to promote Trump hotels, to purchase personal items, and to support his presidential election campaign.

The exhibits are fun to look at too — so many e-mail communications are included.

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