Relates to dispositions in family offense cases and orders of protection against a child under eighteen alleged to be a person in need of supervision or to have committed a family offense; provides that no order of protection or temporary order of protection may be issued directing a respondent who resides with a parent, other person legally responsible or other party to stay away from the home of such individual if the effect of such order would leave the respondent without an appropriate alternative residence; relates to the right of a respondent under the age of eighteen to have a guardian ad litem appointed in a family offense proceeding in which the petitioner is a parent or other person legally responsible for the respondent.
Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebuttable presumption.
Removes the requirement that any earned income from a homeless family in Westchester county receiving temporary housing assistance be applied to room and board, or to eliminate a need for temporary housing assistance, or as a condition to receive temporary housing assistance.
Extends the chief administrator of the courts' authority to allow referees to determine certain applications to a family court for an order of protection.
Provides a heart disease presumption for members employed as a probation officer, supervising probation officer or probation officer trainee of a department of probation in a city with a population of one million or more.