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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A05143Relates to court ordered forensic evaluations and reports in child custody and visitation proceedings.
Direction
Custody & supportcustody parenting timeAI label
↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 80%
Requires court-ordered forensic evaluators in custody and visitation cases to provide full reports and underlying files to all parties, their attorneys, the child's attorney, and retained experts (subject to protective orders), and makes willful violations punishable as contempt.
all parties, their attorneys and the attorney for the child shall have a right to receive a copy of any such forensic report upon receipt of such a report by the court, subject to the provisions of section three thousand one hundred three of the civil practice law and rules. Provided, however, in no event shall a party or such party's counsel be prevented from access to or review of a forensic report in advance of and during trial.
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2026-01-07: referred to judiciary
Filed
2025-02-12
Committee
Judiciary
Sponsor
Jeffrey Dinowitz D, Edward Braunstein D, Vivian Cook D, Deborah Glick D + 5 cosponsors (4 D, 1 R)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends the domestic relations law and family court act solely to expand procedural rights to discovery and access to forensic evaluation reports and underlying materials in child custody and visitation proceedings. This increases transparency and ability to challenge evaluator findings, which expands rights for the less-custodial or paying parent in disputes between parents or with third parties. No other listed topics are substantively addressed.
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