Delaware County Surrogate’s Court

**PLEASE NOTE:  This Surrogate’s Court is now requiring Mandatory E-Filing for ALL estate proceedings.  If you are not able to file electronically then you must submit form SCM-2 Notice of Opt-Out of Mandatory E-Filing which can be found on the court forms website.

Phone: 607-376-5405
Fax: 646-963-6403
delawaresurrogatecourt@nycourts.gov

Hours of Operation:
Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(Closed from noon to 1:00 p.m.)
(excluding State Holidays)

Chief Clerk
Rebecca Vroman

Judge’s Chambers

Surrogate Court Judge
Hon. John Hubbard

Secretary
Carole Westfall

Court Attorney
Erin Neale

County Court Chambers
Delaware County Courthouse
3 Court Street
Delhi, NY 13753
Phone: 607-376-5422

Overview

Surrogate’s Court has jurisdiction over actions and proceedings of decedents, including the probate of a last will and testament, intestate estates, small estates, ancillary proceedings, disputed claims, discovery proceedings, accountings, wrongful death compromise and settlement actions, inter vivos and testamentary trusts, guardianship proceedings of person and/or property of infants and Article 17/A, as well as private and agency adoptions.

Records of decedents are on file and available to the public for viewing and copying. A number of records are scanned into the public access computer and we are currently in the process of scanning older files into the computer as well.

Local Practices

This Court requires that a Family Tree form be completed for ALL filing types except for an
adoption. It can be found under Miscellaneous forms on the forms website.

This Court will not accept original forms with white-out or correction tape on them. If changes must be made they should be crossed out and initialed OR a new form completed.

If filing a Small Estate (a/k/a Voluntary Administration) proceeding the total estate assets must total less than $50,000.00, and cannot include real estate.