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Assembly Bill A10469

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to orders of protection

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2025-A10469 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §812, Fam Ct Act; amd §530.11, CP L

2025-A10469 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows orders of protection to be issued for persons where one such person is the spouse or intimate partner of such other person's former spouse or former intimate partner.

2025-A10469 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10469
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the family court act and the criminal procedure law,  in
   relation to orders of protection
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 1 of section  812  of
 the family court act, as amended by chapter 541 of the laws of 2024, are
 amended and a new paragraph (g) is added to read as follows:
   (e)  persons  who are not related by consanguinity or affinity and who
 are or have been in an intimate relationship regardless of whether  such
 persons  have lived together at any time. Factors the court may consider
 in determining whether a  relationship  is  an  "intimate  relationship"
 include  but  are  not  limited  to: the nature or type of relationship,
 regardless of whether the relationship is sexual in nature; the frequen-
 cy of interaction between the persons; and the duration of the relation-
 ship. Neither a casual acquaintance nor ordinary fraternization  between
 two  individuals  in  business  or  social  contexts  shall be deemed to
 constitute an "intimate relationship"; [and]
   (f) persons who are related by consanguinity or  affinity  to  parties
 who are or have been in an intimate relationship as defined in paragraph
 (e) of this subdivision[.]; AND
   (G)  PERSONS  WHO  ARE NOT RELATED BY CONSANGUINITY OR AFFINITY, WHERE
 ONE SUCH PERSON IS THE SPOUSE OR INTIMATE PARTNER OF SUCH OTHER PERSON'S
 FORMER SPOUSE OR FORMER INTIMATE PARTNER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARA-
 GRAPH, THE TERM "INTIMATE PARTNER" SHALL MEAN A RELATIONSHIP  WHERE  TWO
 INDIVIDUALS ARE IN AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP, AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (E)
 OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   §  2. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 1 of section 530.11 of the
 criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 541 of the laws  of  2024,
 are amended and a new paragraph (g) is added to read as follows:
   (e)  persons  who are not related by consanguinity or affinity and who
 are or have been in an intimate relationship regardless of whether  such
 persons  have lived together at any time. Factors the court may consider
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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