Assembly Bill A3314

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing procedure guidelines for custody agreements involving child abuse, family violence and/or domestic violence

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A3314 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1584
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240, Dom Rel L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10668, S8549

2021-A3314 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to establishing procedure guidelines for custody agreements including those involving child abuse, family violence and/or domestic violence; provides guidelines regarding the best interests of the child standard and the awarding of supervised or unsupervised visitation for offending parents.

2021-A3314 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3314
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, TAYLOR, CRUZ, DAVILA, PERRY, McDONOUGH --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to establishing
   procedure guidelines for custody  agreements  involving  child  abuse,
   family violence and/or domestic violence

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 240 of the domes-
 tic relations law, as amended by chapter 567 of the  laws  of  2015,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  (1) In any action or proceeding brought [(1)] to annul a marriage
 or to declare the nullity of a void marriage, or [(2)] for a separation,
 or [(3)] for a divorce, or [(4)] to obtain, by a writ of  habeas  corpus
 or by petition and order to show cause, the custody of or right to visi-
 tation  with  any child of a marriage, the court shall require verifica-
 tion of the status of any child of the marriage  with  respect  to  such
 child's custody and support, including any prior orders, and shall enter
 orders  for  custody  and support as, in the court's discretion, justice
 requires, having regard to the circumstances of  the  case  and  of  the
 respective parties and to the best interests of the child and subject to
 the  provisions of subdivision one-c of this section. Where either party
 to an action concerning custody of or a right to visitation with a child
 alleges in a sworn petition or complaint or  sworn  answer,  cross-peti-
 tion,  counterclaim  or  other  sworn responsive pleading that the other
 party has committed an act of CHILD ABUSE AGAINST THE CHILD, OR  COMMIT-
 TED  AN  ACT  OF  FAMILY VIOLENCE OR domestic violence against the party
 making the allegation or a family or household member of  either  party,
 as  such  family  or household member is defined in article eight of the
 family court act, [and such allegations are proven by a preponderance of
 the evidence, the court  must  consider  the  effect  of  such  domestic
 violence  upon the best interests of the child, together with such other

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

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