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
