Eliminates the requirement for parental consent to an adoption when one parent has an order of protection against him or her for the protection of the other parent, a person in lawful custody of the child or the child.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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917
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to eliminating
the requirement of a parent to consent to the adoption of his or her
child when such parent has had an order of protection issued against
him or her for the protection of the other parent, a person having
lawful custody of such child or the child
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 111 of the domes-
2 tic relations law, as amended by chapter 375 of the laws of 1997, is
3 amended and a new paragraph (f) is added to read as follows:
4 (e) who has executed an instrument, which shall be irrevocable, deny-
5 ing the paternity of the child, such instrument having been executed
6 after conception and acknowledged or proved in the manner required to
7 permit the recording of a deed[.]; or
8 (f) who, whether an adult or child:
9 (i) is the parent of the child; and
10 (ii) is the spouse or former spouse of the other parent of the child
11 conceived or born in wedlock; and
12 (iii) has had an order of protection issued against him or her for the
13 protection of the other parent, a person having lawful custody of such
14 child or the child, which is in effect at the time of the placement of
15 the child or at any time during the six month period preceding such
16 placement.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
18 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03630-01-9