A
message from
Register
of Probate Richard Iannella:
Welcome to the official Richard Iannella Internet Web site.
This site is maintained at private expense as an
unofficial site of the Suffolk County Probate and Family
Court Registry. I hope that you
will find the many resources contained here to be helpful
and informative.
If you live in Suffolk County, you will likely require
the services of the Registry at some point in your life, as
more than 17,000 new matters are
filed here each year. Thirty years
ago, more than 90% of our business was probate-related. As
society has changed, so have many of our responsibilities,
and now, more than 70% of our cases deal with family matters
like divorce, paternity and visitation.
Some other key facts may surprise you:
While about 3,500 Suffolk County couples were married
during the year 2000, more than 2000 couples filed for
divorce during the very same period of time;
In
nearly three-quarters of the cases that come before our court,
one or more litigants appears without a lawyer.
Because the Registry has legal jurisdiction over probate
and family-related matters, it is likely that you will come
through our doors at some point in your life. In order to
make the time that you may spend here as brief and
effortless as possible, I have established programs and
services to assist you. Many of these services are available
on this Internet Web site, and I hope that you find them to
be helpful to you.
As always, I am available to answer any specific
questions that you may have, and I look forward to assisting
you in any way that I can.
