Provides that family court may not exclude from child protective proceedings (abuse and neglect) under article 10 of the family court act, a child who is the subject of the hearing and who has expressed an interest in attending except upon a finding that attendance by the child would be detrimental to the child's emotional health.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4703
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ, CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
GLICK, MAYERSOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Chil-
dren and Families
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the attendance of
children at hearings in family court
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1043 of the family court act, as amended by chapter
2 682 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 1043. Hearings not open to the public. The general public may be
4 excluded from any hearing under this article and only such persons and
5 the representatives of authorized agencies admitted thereto as have an
6 interest in the case. Where a child who is the subject of the proceeding
7 has expressed an interest in attending, the court may not exclude such
8 child from any hearing under this article, except upon a finding that,
9 under the particular facts of the case, attendance at the hearing would
10 be detrimental to the child's emotional health.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08889-01-1
