Demand for pleadings · as in force on May 31, 2026
Unless otherwise ordered by the Surrogate, where a party is entitled under SCPA 302(3) to a copy of a pleading on demand, it shall be served within five days of the demand.
When a party is entitled under SCPA 302(3) to a copy of a pleading on demand, the pleading shall be served within 5 days of the demand, unless the Surrogate orders otherwise. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Surrogate's Court in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Surrogate's Court: Court Rules & the EPTL; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.