Bill Text: NY A08706 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the petitioner to have counsel assigned by the court in certain custody proceedings.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to judiciary [A08706 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08706-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8706

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 23, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to allowing the  peti-
          tioner  to  have  counsel  assigned  by  the  court in certain custody
          proceedings

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (iii) of subdivision (a) of section 262 of the
     2  family court act, as amended by chapter 666 of  the  laws  of  1976,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (iii)  the  petitioner and the respondent in any proceeding under part
     5  three of article six of this act;
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13928-01-9