Senate Bill S1787

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes confirmatory adoptions and allowing courts to grant the custody and support from more than two parents

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S1787 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10259
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§109 & 70, add Art 7 Title 5 §§119 - 119-c, Dom Rel L; add Art 5-D Part 1 §582-101, Part 2 §§582-102 - 582-104, Part 3 §§582-105 - 582-106, amd §413, Fam Ct Act
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9280, A10523

2023-S1787 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes confirmatory adoptions allowing adoption and parentage judgements for a child with more than two parents; recognizes functional parents as legal parents; allows "de facto parents" to get a court order confirming their parentage; grants all legal parents standing to seek visitation or custody of their children.

2023-S1787 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1787 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1787
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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 and the family court act,  in
   relation to establishing confirmatory adoptions and allowing courts to
   grant the custody and support from more than two parents

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 109 of the domestic relations  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  "CONFIRMATORY  ADOPTION"  SHALL  MEAN AN ADOPTION OF A CHILD BY AN
 EXISTING LEGAL PARENT PURSUANT TO TITLE FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. Article 7 of the domestic relations law is amended  by  adding  a
 new title 5 to read as follows:
                                   TITLE V
                          CONFIRMATORY ADOPTIONS
 
 SECTION 119. PURPOSE OF TITLE.
         119-A. ELIGIBILITY TO FILE FOR CONFIRMATORY ADOPTION.
         119-B. PROCEDURE ON APPLICATION FOR CONFIRMATORY ADOPTION.
         119-C. MULTI-PARENT ADOPTION.
 § 119. PURPOSE  OF  TITLE.  THE  PURPOSE  OF  THIS  TITLE IS TO CREATE A
 STREAMLINED ADOPTION PROCESS FOR A  CHILD'S  PARENTS  TO  CONFIRM  THEIR
 PARENT-CHILD  RELATIONSHIP  THROUGH  AN ADOPTION IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE
 CHILD'S BEST INTERESTS. SUCH ADOPTION PROCESS SHALL ENSURE  ALL  PARENTS
 ARE  AFFORDED  FULL RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF BIOLOG-
 ICAL PARENTS, ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN CONCEIVED THROUGH ASSISTED REPROD-
 UCTION.
   § 119-A. ELIGIBILITY TO FILE FOR CONFIRMATORY ADOPTION. 1. PARENTS  OF
 A CHILD MAY FILE A JOINT PETITION FOR A CONFIRMATORY ADOPTION TO CONFIRM
 THEIR  PARENTAGE. THOSE ELIGIBLE INCLUDE THE CHILD'S INTENDED PARENTS AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION 581-102 OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT AND  THE  CURRENT  OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05046-01-3
              

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