Custodian · Passaic County, New Jersey

Return of
service Passaic County, New Jersey: OPRA request, land records, Surrogate, voter registration, Sheriff, courthouse, tax board, County Clerk, bar association, crime victims

ServedPassaic County · checked 2026-09-02

The three things people look up in Passaic County. Every link was opened and checked; one nobody could open is shown as text with the reason.

Every office in Passaic County

How to file an OPRA request, in five steps.

OPRA request
OPRA request
Land records
County Clerk / Register search
Surrogate
Wills, estates, guardianships
Voter registration
Superintendent of Elections
Sheriff’s sales
Foreclosure auctions
Civil process
Service of papers, writs, levies
Courthouse
Passaic vicinage
Ombudsman
Help without a lawyer · 973-653-2910 ext. 24470
Tax appeals
County Board of Taxation
County Clerk
Passports, notary, trade names
Bar association
Passaic County Bar Association
Lawyer referral
Low-fee first consultation · 973-345-4585
Crime victims
Prosecutor’s victim-witness unit · 973-881-4800

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From here, your case

Each office above is where a case starts; each step of the case has a rule and a clock. From the Surrogate: a probate matter or a guardianship. From the Sheriff’s sales list: a foreclosure. From the Board of Taxation: a tax appeal. From the courthouse in Passaic County: an eviction, a restraining order, a Special Civil Part claim, or any of sixteen kinds of case, each step quoting its rule.

Passaic County Bar Association

Address
401 Grand Street, 3rd Floor, Paterson, NJ 07505
Telephone
973-345-4585
Website
passaicbar.org
Lawyer referral
Referral list · 973-345-4585

The referral list is a PDF the association publishes each year; the first half-hour consultation with a listed lawyer costs $50, and any fee after that is agreed with the lawyer directly. passaicbar.org was rebuilt on 2026-09-02 and shows a placeholder while the new site is finished; the lawyer referral list is linked from it.

Complaint about a lawyer. An ethics grievance about a lawyer practising in Passaic County goes to the District Ethics Committee, District XI · 973-778-0154. Fee disputes go to the District Fee Committee instead. How to file, deadlines and every address; to find or check a lawyer, the Lawyers page.

About Passaic County and this page

A return of service says who was served, where, and when. This one names every office in Passaic County that holds a public record, with the address that answered on 2026-09-02.

In Passaic County, an OPRA request goes to the county's records custodian and must be answered within seven business days. Voter registration is kept by the Superintendent of Elections. Superior Court matters are heard in the Passaic vicinage, whose Ombudsman answers at 973-653-2910 ext. 24470 for anyone without a lawyer. The Passaic County Bar Association runs a lawyer referral service at 973-345-4585. Crime victims reach the Prosecutor's victim-witness unit at 973-881-4800. Deeds and mortgages at the County Clerk are public without any request. A link nobody could open is shown as text with the reason, not guessed.

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Custodian is legal information, not legal advice. Records offices change their websites; when a link is wrong, the county’s own site is the source of truth. Court records are not covered by OPRA and follow the Judiciary’s own rules — see the statewide sources on the main Custodian page.

Cross-reference. Going to court and cannot pay the filing fee? See the notice of motion to proceed in forma pauperis (the New Jersey court fee waiver) or open the fee waiver form directly. Every other New Jersey court form is free at in.formapauperis.com.