STATE OF NEW YORK
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1523--A
Cal. No. 185
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. DUANE, BRESLIN, KRUEGER, SCHNEIDERMAN, SQUADRON --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee
on Children and Families in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to authorizing
two unmarried adult intimate partners to adopt a child
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 110 of the
2 domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 254 of the laws of 1991,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 An adult unmarried person [or], an adult [husband and his adult wife]
5 married couple together, or any two unmarried adult intimate partners
6 together may adopt another person. An adult married person who is living
7 separate and apart from his or her spouse pursuant to a decree or judg-
8 ment of separation or pursuant to a written agreement of separation
9 subscribed by the parties thereto and acknowledged or proved in the form
10 required to entitle a deed to be recorded or an adult married person who
11 has been living separate and apart from his or her spouse for at least
12 three years prior to commencing an adoption proceeding may adopt another
13 person; provided, however, that the person so adopted shall not be
14 deemed the child or step-child of the non-adopting spouse for the
15 purposes of inheritance or support rights or obligations or for any
16 other purposes. An adult or minor [husband and his adult or minor wife]
17 married couple together may adopt a child of either of them born in or
18 out of wedlock and an adult or minor [husband or an adult or minor wife]
19 spouse may adopt such a child of the other spouse. No person shall here-
20 after be adopted except in pursuance of this article, and in conformity
21 with section three hundred seventy-three of the social services law.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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