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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S09748Establishes confirmatory adoptions providing for the adoption of children born as a result of assisted reproduction; allows for more than two persons to be named parents of a child; establishes presumed parentage and provides for the challenge and adjudication thereof; repeals certain provisions relating thereto.
Direction
Custody & supportcustody parenting timeAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 90%
Allows courts to award custody to more than two parents and removes prima facie right to custody for either parent, basing decisions solely on best interest factors that can now include multi-parent arrangements.
Where a court deems it to be in the child's best interest, based on factors listed in paragraphs one, two, three and four of subdivision (a) of section five hundred eighty-six of the family court act, the court may award custody to more than two parents.
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Custody & supportchild supportAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 80%
Expands the definition of parents for child support purposes to include more than two parents by changing references from 'either or both' or 'both' to 'one or more' or 'all' parents and updating combined parental income calculations accordingly.
"Combined parental income" shall mean the sum of the income of [deleted: both] all parents.
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Custody & supportotherAI label
↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 70%
Repeals prior presumptions of legitimacy and related acknowledgment-of-parentage provisions while replacing them with new presumed parentage rules that can apply to more than two parents and allow confirmatory adoptions without terminating existing parental rights.
§ 5. Section 24 of the domestic relations law is REPEALED.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily addresses parentage presumptions, confirmatory adoptions for children born via assisted reproduction, multi-parent adoptions and custody awards, and corresponding changes to child support calculations that treat multiple parents as sharing obligations. These provisions substantively alter custody-parenting-time and child-support rules between parents (including more than two), triggering custody-support tags judged from the paying/less-custodial parent's axis per the guidelines. No provisions address firearms, transgender issues, abortion, or immigration enforcement.
Related bills
A06194Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Died (session ended)
S05998Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Died (session ended)
S08253Relates to interest on unclaimed child and spousal support payments by the owner of abandoned properties.=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Died (session ended)
S10468Establishes confirmatory adoptions allowing adoption and parentage judgements for a child with more than two parents; recognizes functional ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Died (session ended)