5 New York Civil Practice: CPLR P 3020.00

Summary

A verification is a written statement under oath that asserts the truth of allegations in a pleading. Because effective sanction for false verification is lacking, most pleadings are drafted by lawyers notlitigants, and modern pleading rules allow hypothetical and inconsistent pleading of facts intended to be proved, verification has been rightly criticized as a bothersome anachronism.1 As a general rule, verification is optional with the pleader, but there are a few situations in which it is mandatory. When a pleading is verified each subsequent pleading in the action must be verified,2 though this rule is itself subject to two exceptions: (1) the answer of an infant need not be verified even if the complaint has been verified;3 and (2) verification also may be ...