Bill Text: NY A01179 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires orders of custody to state whether law enforcement is authorized to remove a child or children in order to comply with and enforce such orders.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to judiciary [A01179 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01179-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1179--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, OTIS, SAYEGH, AUBRY, BUTTENSCHON, DICK-
          ENS, ENGLEBRIGHT, STIRPE, WILLIAMS, MONTESANO,  MORINELLO,  DeSTEFANO,
          McDONOUGH,  B. MILLER,  REILLY, GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Judici-
          ary  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the family court act, in  relation  to  the  removal  of
          children by orders of custody

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (e) of section 651 of the family
     2  court act, as amended by chapter 295 of the laws of 2009, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    4.  Notifying  counsel and issuing orders. Upon consideration of deci-
     5  sions pursuant to article ten of this  act,  and  registry  reports  and
     6  notifying counsel involved in the proceeding, or in the event of a self-
     7  represented  party, notifying such party of the results thereof, includ-
     8  ing any court appointed attorney for children, the  court  may  issue  a
     9  temporary, successive temporary or final order of custody or visitation.
    10  Such  orders,  when  relevant,  shall  state  whether law enforcement is
    11  authorized to remove the child or children in order to comply  with  and
    12  enforce said orders.
    13    §  2. Subdivisions (a) and (b) of section 652 of the family court act,
    14  as amended by chapter 40 of the laws of 1981, are  amended  to  read  as
    15  follows:
    16    (a)  When  referred  from  the  supreme court to the family court, the
    17  family court  has  jurisdiction  to  determine,  with  the  same  powers
    18  possessed  by the supreme court, applications to fix temporary or perma-
    19  nent custody and applications to modify judgments and orders of  custody
    20  or  visitation  in  actions  and  proceedings  for  marital  separation,
    21  divorce, annulment of marriage and dissolution of marriage. Applications

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02060-02-1

        A. 1179--A                          2

     1  to modify judgments and orders of custody may be granted by  the  family
     2  court  under this section only upon the showing to the family court that
     3  there has been a subsequent change of circumstances and  that  modifica-
     4  tion  is required. Such determinations, including modifications of judg-
     5  ments or orders of custody,  when  relevant,  shall  state  whether  law
     6  enforcement  is  authorized  to remove the child or children in order to
     7  comply with and enforce court judgments or orders. 
     8    (b) In the event no such referral has been made and unless the supreme
     9  court provides in the order or judgment awarding custody  or  visitation
    10  in  an  action  for  divorce,  separation  or  annulment, that it may be
    11  enforced or modified only in the supreme court, the  family  court  may:
    12  (i)  determine  an application to enforce the order or judgment awarding
    13  custody or visitation, or (ii) determine an application  to  modify  the
    14  order  or  judgment  awarding  custody or visitation upon a showing that
    15  there has been a subsequent change of circumstances and modification  is
    16  required.  Such  determinations, including modifications of judgments or
    17  orders of custody, when relevant, shall state whether law enforcement is
    18  authorized to remove the child or children in order to comply  with  and
    19  enforce court judgments or orders.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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