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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A02271Relates to custody and visitation rights of certain sex offenders.
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Custody & supportcustody parenting timeAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 90%
Creates a prohibition (with narrow exception) and a presumption against custody or unsupervised visitation for certain sex offenders, so more obligations and fewer rights for the less-custodial or paying parent who is a covered sex offender.
Any sex offender designated as a sexual predator, or a sexually violent offender, or classified as a level two or three risk, for a crime involving a child shall be, except in extraordinary circumstances, prohibited from being granted by a court physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child.
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 80%
Imposes a prohibition and presumption against custody or unsupervised visitation based on a sex-offense conviction involving a child, which functions as an automatic or heightened finding that reduces the parent's custody or visitation rights.
Any sex offender classified as a level two or three risk shall be presumed to be ineligible to be granted physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child, and a court shall grant physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child only if the sex offender has provided clear and convincing evidence that granting such custody or visitation will be in the best interest of the child.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds a new section to the correction law that directly limits custody and unsupervised visitation rights for certain registered sex offenders in cases involving a child, creating both a near-total prohibition for the highest-risk categories and a rebuttable presumption against custody/visitation for level two or three offenders; this restricts the axis for the less-custodial parent by increasing obligations and reducing rights, and it also qualifies under the domestic-violence-custody subtag because it treats the qualifying sex offense as grounds that presumptively bar or limit the (f
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