The Clerk of the District of New Jersey is required to collect fees for specific services. Check or Money orders are to be made payable to the Clerk, United States District Court. Cash will not be accepted.
Notice to Customers Presenting Checks
When you provide a check as payment, you authorize us either to use information from your check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account or to process the payment as a check transaction. For inquiries, please call 609-989-0468.
Privacy Act – A Privacy Act Statement required by 5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3) stating our authority for soliciting and the information from your check, and explaining the purposes and routine uses which will be made of your check information, is available from the Federal Register at: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2003/02/04/03-2521/privacy-act-of-1974-as-amended-system-of-records, or by calling toll free at (1-866-945-7920) to obtain a copy by mail. Furnishing the check information is voluntary, but a decision not to do so may require you to make payment by some other method.