STATE OF NEW YORK
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8299
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- (at request of the Unified Court
System) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to automatic
orders in matrimonial actions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph b of subdivision 2 of
2 part B of section 236 of the domestic relations law, as added by chapter
3 72 of the laws of 2009, is amended and a new subparagraph 6 is added to
4 read as follows:
5 With respect to matrimonial actions which commence on or after the
6 effective date of this paragraph, the plaintiff shall cause to be served
7 upon the defendant, simultaneous with the service of the summons, a copy
8 of the automatic orders set forth in this paragraph. The automatic
9 orders shall take effect and be binding upon the plaintiff in a matrimo-
10 nial action immediately upon the filing of the summons, or summons and
11 complaint, and shall be binding upon the defendant immediately upon the
12 service of the automatic orders with the summons. [The] Each automatic
13 [orders] order shall remain in full force and effect [during the penden-
14 cy of the action,] until the judgment of divorce is entered or the
15 action is dismissed, discontinued or stayed, whichever shall occur
16 first, unless the order is terminated, modified or amended by further
17 order of the court upon motion of either of the parties or upon written
18 agreement between the parties duly executed and acknowledged. The auto-
19 matic orders are as follows:
20 (6) If either party receives notice of a tax lien, foreclosure, bank-
21 ruptcy, or litigation, or the filing of same, or of the lifting of a
22 stay in bankruptcy, that could adversely affect the marital estate, that
23 party shall, within ten days after receiving such notice, send written
24 notice of such event to the other party.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08998-01-5
