Custody & support in New York

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• NYS05998 2025-2026By James Skoufis (D) · 40 cosponsors
  Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety.

  AI summary Requires courts to review specific evidence of domestic violence, child abuse and child safety risk factors (including unlawful possession of firearms) before issuing any temporary or final custody or visitation order, and bars custody for a parent presenting a substantial risk of harm to the child.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, domestic violence custody
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jun 5: returned to senate
• NYA06194 2025-2026By Andrew Hevesi (D) · 104 cosponsors
  Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety.

  AI summary Requires courts to prioritize child safety as a threshold issue in custody and visitation decisions, mandates review of domestic violence, child abuse and risk factor evidence (including unlawful possession of firearms), and bars custody for a parent posing substantial risk of harm to the child.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, domestic violence custody
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jun 5: substituted by s5998c
• NYS08253 2025-2026By Jabari Brisport (D)⚠ check quote
  Relates to interest on unclaimed child and spousal support payments by the owner of abandoned properties.

  AI summary Requires the state comptroller to pay interest (at a specified rate, less one percentage point) on unclaimed child support payments held for up to five years, increasing amounts ultimately received by the custodial parent.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent ✓ Reviewedchild support, alimony
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jun 4: referred to ways and means
• NYS10468 2025-2026By Erik Bottcher (D)
  Establishes confirmatory adoptions allowing adoption and parentage judgements for a child with more than two parents; recognizes functional parents as legal parents; allows "de facto parents" to get a court order confirming their parentage; grants all legal parents standing to seek visitation or cus

  AI summary Allows courts to award custody to more than two parents, recognizes de facto and functional parents as legal parents with rights to seek custody or visitation, and establishes confirmatory adoptions and presumptions of parentage for multiple parents, so the less-custodial or paying parent has more (

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, paternity
  ↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 15: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYA08389 2025-2026By Noah Burroughs (D) · 6 cosponsors
  Enacts the "family reform act"; provides that child support amounts shall be calculated based on the non-custodial parent's income; excludes health insurance costs and federal and state income taxes paid from the calculation of income for child support calculation purposes; decreases the amount of t

  AI summary Shifts child support calculation from combined parental income to only the non-custodial parent's income, adds more deductions from income (including state/federal taxes and health insurance costs), caps income at a set amount with discretionary consideration above it, lowers the age of support from

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support, support enforcement
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 20: enacting clause stricken
• NYS09748 2025-2026By Jeremy Cooney (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Establishes 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 rel

  AI summary 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.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, child support
  ↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parentother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 2: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYS08937 2025-2026By Roxanne Persaud (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Provides that a great-grandparent may apply to the supreme court for visitation rights with respect to certain minor great-grandchildren where either or both of the parents of such child is or are deceased.

  AI summary Extends standing to seek court-ordered visitation to great-grandparents (in addition to grandparents) when a parent is deceased, making it easier for nonparent relatives to obtain visitation rights over a parent's objection.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 16: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYS08431 2025-2026By Lea Webb (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Relates to the calculation of child support; provides that child support amounts shall be calculated based on the non-custodial parent's income; excludes health insurance costs and federal and state income taxes paid from the calculation of income for child support calculation purposes; makes relate

  AI summary Shifts child support calculation from combined parental income prorated between parents to a flat percentage of only the non-custodial parent's income (after new deductions for state/federal taxes and health insurance costs), lowers the age of support from 21 to 18, and makes the income cap optional

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYS07746 2025-2026By Luis Sepulveda (D)
  Eliminates the requirement that a driver's license, professional license or recreational license be suspended for failing to pay child support.

  AI summary Eliminates the suspension of driver's, professional, and recreational licenses as a penalty for failing to pay child support or spousal support or for failing to comply with related court orders, so the paying parent faces fewer consequences for nonpayment.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentsupport enforcement
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• NYS07352 2025-2026By Andrew Lanza (R)
  Makes the inability to pay child support an affirmative defense to non-support of child offenses, rather than an element of such offenses.

  AI summary Shifts inability to pay from an element of the non-support offense (which prosecution must prove) to an affirmative defense (which defendant must prove), while preserving liability for voluntary unemployment or reduced earnings, making convictions for non-support easier and increasing obligations on

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentsupport enforcement
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO CODES
• NYS05753 2025-2026By Monica Martinez (D)
  Enacts the "NYPD highway officer Anastasios Tsakos act"; requires intoxicated drivers to pay child support if such intoxicated driving results in the death of the parent or guardian of a minor child due to the influence of alcohol.

  AI summary Requires a person convicted of certain alcohol-related vehicular manslaughter or homicide offenses that kill a parent or guardian to pay court-ordered child support to the surviving parent or guardian until the child is 18 and graduates high school (with provisions for arrearages, delayed start if,

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
• NYS05572 2025-2026By Andrew Lanza (R)
  Enacts the child custody reform act to provide uniform statewide standards for the litigation and mediation of child custody disputes; provides for an initial planning conference between the judge and all parties to attempt a settlement; provides for mediation unless the court finds mediation is ina

  AI summary Requires courts to promote settlement via an initial planning conference and refer suitable cases to mediation for developing parenting plans that designate custody and physical custody, so more use of mediation and parenting plans in custody disputes.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, child support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• NYS04994 2025-2026By Peter Harckham (D) · 6 cosponsors
  Establishes a moratorium on the use of forensic child custody evaluators in family court proceedings by the office of court administration.

  AI summary Bans courts from ordering or admitting forensic custody evaluations and reports in custody or visitation proceedings until a commission's recommendations are implemented, so judges have less information from third-party experts when deciding disputes between parents.

  ↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYS04806 2025-2026By James Sanders (D)
  Provides for the issuance of summonses to each parent, including a non-custodial parent, of any juvenile who is the subject of a juvenile delinquency petition.

  AI summary Requires notice and summons to non-custodial parents in juvenile delinquency cases, informing them of the right to appear, participate, seek temporary release, or direct placement of the child.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYS04128 2025-2026By Kevin Parker (D)
  Establishes the presumption in matrimonial proceedings for awarding shared parenting of minor children in the absence of an allegation that shared parenting would be detrimental to the best interests of the child; establishes an order of preference in awarding custody; defines shared parenting and p

  AI summary Establishes a presumption of shared parenting (joint legal and physical custody) in matrimonial proceedings unless detrimental to the child, creates an order of preference starting with joint custody to both parents, requires a parenting plan, and places the burden of proof on the parent seekingsole

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentdomestic violence custody
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYS01667 2025-2026By Peter Harckham (D) · 7 cosponsors
  Prohibits forensic child custody evaluators who have been terminated for cause from appearing as an expert witness in family court custody and visitation proceedings.

  AI summary Prohibits courts from using expert testimony or reports from forensic child custody evaluators who have been removed from the panel for cause (or who stepped down or settled), making it harder for such discredited evaluators to influence custody and visitation decisions between parents.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYS00245 2025-2026By Roxanne Persaud (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Authorizes expedited settlement conference processes for establishing child support orders where both parties voluntarily agree on the process.

  AI summary Authorizes voluntary expedited settlement conferences to establish child support orders by agreement, with required guidelines worksheet and court confirmation, for cases not involving disputes over income or other excluded matters.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• NYS00148 2025-2026By Anthony Palumbo (R)
  Requires reduction of a parent's child support obligation by the amount of social security dependent benefits received by the child.

  AI summary Requires that social security dependent benefits received by a child due to a parent's earnings be credited against and reduce that parent's child support obligation.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• NYS00146 2025-2026By Anthony Palumbo (R)
  Prohibits courts from ordering an evaluation of a party or child or allowing into evidence a forensic report created by a forensic evaluator on a party or child to assist such court in a child custody or visitation determination.

  AI summary Bans courts from ordering or admitting forensic evaluations and reports (including by mental health professionals, probation or child protective employees) in custody or visitation cases, so judges have less information from experts when deciding disputes between parents.

  ↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• NYA08385 2025-2026By Noah Burroughs (D)⚠ check quote
  Decreases the amount of time courts can imprison an individual for the non-payment of child support to five days per each failure to obey any lawful order of support and not to exceed thirty days total; requires courts to order alternatives to imprisonment prior to imprisoning an individual for the

  AI summary Reduces the maximum jail time for willful nonpayment of child support from longer periods to five days per violation and 30 days total, and requires courts to order alternatives to imprisonment first, so less use of incarceration to enforce support obligations.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentsupport enforcement
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA08296 2025-2026By Karen McMahon (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Relates to recurring payments to the non-custodial parent in special circumstances in child support proceedings involving joint or shared custody of children.

  AI summary Allows courts to order the higher-income custodial parent to make recurring payments to the lower-income non-custodial parent in joint/shared custody cases when specific conditions are met, and treats such payments as child support that can be netted against the non-custodial parent's obligation.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support, custody parenting time
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA07005 2025-2026By Chantel Jackson (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Eliminates the requirement that a driver's license, professional license or recreational license be suspended for failing to pay child support.

  AI summary Eliminates the suspension of driver's, professional, occupational, business and recreational licenses as a penalty for unpaid spousal or child support arrears or for noncompliance with process in a support or paternity proceeding, so the paying parent faces fewer consequences for nonpayment.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentsupport enforcement, child support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA06171 2025-2026By John Lemondes (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Requires a custodial parent who lives with a sex offender to provide that information to a non-custodial parent.

  AI summary Requires a custodial parent living with a sex offender to disclose that fact to the non-custodial parent, increasing the non-custodial parent's information and ability to seek modifications or protections regarding parenting time and custody.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, domestic violence custody
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA06151 2025-2026By Christopher Tague (R) · 4 cosponsors
  Establishes procedures for temporary custody orders that include a fifty-fifty rebuttable presumption that the parents shall have temporary joint legal and shared physical custody and shall share equal parenting time.

  AI summary Creates a rebuttable presumption of temporary joint legal and shared physical custody with equal parenting time, and requires maximizing each parent's time with the child if deviation is warranted, so more rights for the less-custodial parent.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA05143 2025-2026By Jeffrey Dinowitz (D) +3 · 5 cosponsors
  Relates to court ordered forensic evaluations and reports in child custody and visitation proceedings.

  AI summary 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.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA04978 2025-2026By Vivian Cook (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Provides that a great-grandparent may apply to the supreme court for visitation rights with respect to certain minor great-grandchildren where either or both of the parents of such child is or are deceased.

  AI summary Extends standing for great-grandparents to seek court-ordered visitation with minor great-grandchildren when a parent is deceased, increasing the ability of nonparents to obtain visitation rights over parental objection.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA04880 2025-2026By Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (D) · 9 cosponsors
  Establishes 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 rel

  AI summary Allows courts to award custody to more than two parents and changes custody determinations to consider best interest factors without prima facie right to either parent, while establishing multi-parent presumptions, confirmatory adoptions, and adjudication of competing parentage claims based on bests

  ↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, paternity
  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA04786 2025-2026By Brian Manktelow (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Establishes a presumption of shared parenting of minor children in matrimonial and family court proceedings.

  AI summary Establishes a presumption that shared parenting is in the best interest of the child, places the burden of proof on the parent seeking sole custody to show detriment, requires parenting plans for joint custody, and prioritizes joint custody in the order of preference, so more rights for the less-cus

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentdomestic violence custody
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA04635 2025-2026By Joe Sempolinski (R)
  Allows family court to issue temporary spousal support when issuing either a temporary order of protection or a temporary order for child support.

  AI summary Allows family court to issue temporary spousal support orders alongside temporary orders of protection or child support without requiring a showing of immediate need, increasing the likelihood and ease of obtaining such support.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentalimony
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA04634 2025-2026By Joe Sempolinski (R)⚠ check quote
  Relates to noncompliance of an employer or income payor with income execution orders; allows child support unit to count each failure to remit payment as an instance of noncompliance.

  AI summary Allows each failure by an employer or income payor to remit a child support payment to count as a separate instance of noncompliance, increasing penalties or enforcement actions for unpaid support.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentsupport enforcement
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA03822 2025-2026By David Weprin (D) +1⚠ check quote
  Enacts the child custody reform act to provide uniform statewide standards for the litigation and mediation of child custody disputes; provides for an initial planning conference between the judge and all parties to attempt a settlement; provides for mediation unless the court finds mediation is ina

  AI summary Establishes uniform standards and procedures for mediation of custody and parenting disputes, requires courts to promote settlements and parenting plans, and defines terms like physical custody and shared-time arrangements, so more structured resolution favoring parental agreements over litigation.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, child support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA03641 2025-2026By Demond Meeks (D) · 7 cosponsors
  Enacts the "NYPD highway officer Anastasios Tsakos act"; requires intoxicated drivers to pay child support if such intoxicated driving results in the death of the parent or guardian of a minor child due to the influence of alcohol.

  AI summary Requires a person convicted of certain alcohol-related vehicular manslaughter or homicide offenses that kill a parent or guardian to pay court-ordered child support to the surviving parent or guardian until the child is 18 and graduates high school (with provisions for arrearages, delayed start if a

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to transportation
• NYA03531 2025-2026By Karines Reyes (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Authorizes expedited settlement conference processes for establishing child support orders where both parties voluntarily agree on the process.

  AI summary Authorizes voluntary expedited settlement conferences to establish child support orders by agreement, with financial disclosure and guidelines worksheet, allowing faster issuance of support orders without full litigation.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYA01534 2025-2026By Keith Brown (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Requires a defendant who causes the death of a person with children due to driving while intoxicated or impaired to pay for child support of such children until they reach the age of 18 years old.

  AI summary Requires a defendant convicted of causing a parent's death by driving while intoxicated or impaired to pay child support until the child is 18, and makes the surviving children eligible for state crime-victim compensation awards of child support paid monthly until age 18.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to governmental operations
• NYA00786 2025-2026By Linda Rosenthal (D)
  Prohibits independent higher education institutions from collecting financial information from a student's or prospective student's non-custodial parent; requires that private colleges use student financial aid formulas that are arrived at independently, without coordination with outside standard se

  AI summary Prohibits colleges from collecting financial information from a non-custodial parent when determining financial aid, which reduces the non-custodial parent's financial obligations tied to custody arrangements.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, child support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to higher education
• NYA00743 2025-2026By Andrew Hevesi (D)
  Directs the social services district to take no action to establish paternity or a child support order when the applicant or recipient for aid to dependent children has established good cause to refuse to cooperate.

  AI summary Prevents the state from establishing paternity or a child support order when the applicant or recipient has good cause to refuse to cooperate, so fewer obligations to establish paternity for the parent receiving aid.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentpaternity, child support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to social services
• NYA00532 2025-2026By Andrew Hevesi (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Prohibits courts from ordering an evaluation of a party or child or allowing into evidence a forensic report created by a forensic evaluator on a party or child to assist such court in a child custody or visitation determination.

  AI summary Bans courts from ordering or admitting forensic evaluations and reports (including by mental health professionals, probation or child protective employees) in custody or visitation cases, so judges have less information from third-party experts when deciding disputes between parents.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 7: referred to judiciary
• NYS08197 2025-2026By Jabari Brisport (D)
  Relates to the right to counsel in certain family court proceedings regarding violations of orders of child support and to establish paternity or parentage in the family court.

  AI summary Expands right to counsel (including appointed counsel if indigent) for all parties in proceedings to hold them in contempt or for willful violation of child support orders, and for respondents in such proceedings.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentsupport enforcement, paternity
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Dec 5, 2025: VETOED MEMO.98
• NYS08374 2025-2026By Roxanne Persaud (D)
  Establishes a pilot program to provide alternative dispute resolution and navigator services to litigants in child support matters in the family court under the auspices of the community dispute resolution center program.

  AI summary Establishes a pilot program using alternative dispute resolution and navigator services to help litigants reach and implement agreements on child support in family court, including training on support standards, modifications, and noncompliance consequences.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: Law Nov 21, 2025: SIGNED CHAP.571
• NYA08407 2025-2026By Charles Lavine (D)
  Relates to requiring certain records checks in child custody proceedings involving orders of protection; repeals certain provisions relating thereto.

  AI summary Requires the court to review sex offender registry, orders of protection registry, related child protective decisions, and warrants before awarding custody in family offense cases, so more information is considered that can affect custody outcomes.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time
  Stage: Law Nov 21, 2025: signed chap.536
• NYA08298 2025-2026By Patrick Carroll (D)
  Relates to the time limit for appeals in all categories of family court cases and the filing of objections to support magistrate determinations in child support, paternity and parentage proceedings in family court.

  AI summary Extends the time for filing objections to support magistrate determinations from 30/35 days to a longer period (implied by the amendment context) and changes service requirements, altering procedures for challenging child support orders.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support, paternity, other
  Stage: Law Nov 21, 2025: signed chap.534
• NYA02271 2025-2026By D. Billy Jones (D)
  Relates to custody and visitation rights of certain sex offenders.

  AI summary 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.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, domestic violence custody
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Sep 8, 2025: enacting clause stricken
• NYA08297 2025-2026By Jennifer Lunsford (D)
  Establishes a pilot program to provide alternative dispute resolution and navigator services to litigants in child support matters in the family court under the auspices of the community dispute resolution center program.

  AI summary Establishes a pilot program using alternative dispute resolution and navigator services to help litigants reach and implement agreements on child support in family court, including training on support standards, modifications, and noncompliance consequences.

  =No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jun 17, 2025: substituted by s8374
• NYA08271 2025-2026By Maritza Davila (D)
  Relates to the right to counsel in certain family court proceedings regarding violations of orders of child support and to establish paternity or parentage in the family court.

  AI summary Expands right to counsel (including appointed counsel if indigent) for all parties in proceedings to hold them in contempt or willful violation of child support orders, and for respondents in such proceedings, so greater ability for the paying/less-custodial parent to defend against enforcement.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentsupport enforcement, paternity, child support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jun 13, 2025: substituted by s8197
• NYS08198 2025-2026By Jabari Brisport (D)
  Relates to requiring certain records checks in child custody proceedings involving orders of protection; repeals certain provisions relating thereto.

  AI summary Requires the court to review sex offender registry, orders of protection registry, child protective decisions, and warrants before awarding custody in family offense cases, so more information on safety risks is considered when deciding custody.

  ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, domestic violence custody
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jun 10, 2025: SUBSTITUTED BY A8407
• NYS08176 2025-2026By Roxanne Persaud (D)
  Relates to the time limit for appeals in all categories of family court cases and the filing of objections to support magistrate determinations in child support, paternity and parentage proceedings in family court.

  AI summary Extends the time for filing objections to support magistrate determinations from 30/35 days to a longer period (implied by the amendment structure) and changes service requirements, giving parties more time and procedural flexibility in child support proceedings.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support, paternity
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jun 10, 2025: SUBSTITUTED BY A8298
• NYS04555 2025-2026By Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D) · 5 cosponsors
  Establishes 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 of

  AI summary Allows courts to award custody to more than two parents and removes prima facie right to custody for either parent, replacing it with best-interest determination that can recognize multi-parent arrangements, so more rights for the less-custodial parent(s).

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, child support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 19, 2025: PRINT NUMBER 4555A
• NYS00465 2025-2026By Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Establishes confirmatory adoptions allowing adoption and parentage judgements for a child with more than two parents; recognizes functional parents as legal parents; allows "de facto parents" to get a court order confirming their parentage; grants all legal parents standing to seek visitation or cus

  AI summary Expands ability of more than two legal parents (including de facto and functional parents) to seek and obtain custody, visitation and parenting time, and allows courts to award custody to more than two parents.

  ↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentcustody parenting time, paternity
  ↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parentchild support
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 21, 2025: RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN

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