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Surrogate Court for Petition of Probate New York - COMBINED VERIFICATION, OATH AND DESIGNATION what is SS
<p>In NY, when filling out forms for Petition of Probate, it reads the following:
COMBINED VERIFICATION, OATH AND DESIGNATION
[For use when petitioner is an individual]
STATE OF NEW YORK )_______
COUNTY OF _________ ss.________</p>
<p><strong>What is the ss? Is that social security number of the petitioner or something else?</strong></p>
<p>Page 5.
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<p>The &quot;SS&quot; is a standard part of a the notarization language on a document which is known as the &quot;jurat&quot; of a document.</p>
<p>The “SS” stands for the Latin term “scilicet” which means &quot;in particular&quot; or &quot;namely&quot; and simply indicates that the place where the document was signed is described in the preceding bracketed portion of the jurat.</p>
<p>You do not have mark anything or fill in any additional information on the “SS” designation itself. Completing the areas marked &quot;State of ________&quot; and &quot;County of _________&quot; with the location where the notarization takes place is where you enter the necessary information for the venue portion of this form.</p>
<p>You are no doubt confused because one of the possible jurats for the form (the one for an individual petitioner) has a fill in the blank line which I have screen shotted below:</p>
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<p><strong>The inclusion of a line to fill in following &quot;ss.&quot; on the form is a drafting error in the form, which is not repeated in the other jurats on the form, probably because the person who drafted the form didn't know what it meant.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Another Flaw In The Form</strong></p>
<p>The same portion of the form also has another drafting error although a less innocent one and it appears in all of the jurats on that form.</p>
<p>It should have omitted the words &quot;New York&quot; because it is not mandatory to actually notarize the Petition at a location that is physically within the State of New York, even though usually this is what will be done. On the other hand there was a requirement to sign the document in New York State, in contrast (which there isn't) then the fill in the blank line following &quot;New York&quot; should have been omitted.</p>
<p>This is a case of someone gratuitously including an apparent extra-statutory requirement in a form (probably because they often have to reject forms if the state isn't filled in at all), without an explanation that &quot;New York&quot; may be crossed out and replaced with another state in the space following the name of the state.</p>
