Relates to eliminating the ability of a court to commit a respondent to jail or place a respondent on probation as a penalty for violation of a support order.
Establishes a temporary state assistance fund to provide legal counsel for bankruptcy proceedings under chapter eleven of the federal bankruptcy code; provides for the administration thereof.
Relates to requiring written notification by mortgagees commencing foreclosure actions on a multiple dwelling with ten or more units to the department of housing preservation and development to aid in the identification and improvements of at-risk properties.
Relates to requiring the recording of mezzanine debt and preferred equity investments and including mezzanine debt in the mortgage recording tax; defines mezzanine debt.
Relates to designating blighted property and blighted areas; establishes criteria for designation; provides definition of blighted property and blighted areas; amends definition of substandard or insanitary area by removing the words "slum" and "deteriorated or deteriorating".
Provides that a copy of the petition, affidavits, affirmations and exhibits thereto upon which process was issued, shall be served with the citation or other process, except where service is by publication, and except in a proceeding for a voluntary accounting.
Relates to increasing the maximum civil penalty from $500 to $1000 per day per property for each day the mortgagee or agent of the mortgagee has been in violation.
Prohibits settlement agreements in any claim involving sexual harassment or any other form of discrimination prohibited by law from containing any condition that requires the complainant to pay the defendant liquidated damages in the event that the plaintiff violates any nondisclosure agreement included in such settlement agreement.
Requires orders of custody to state whether law enforcement is authorized to remove a child or children in order to comply with and enforce such orders.
Relates to mandatory training of a forensic evaluator in relation to court ordered forensic evaluations involving child custody and visitation when the child is living out-of-state and is farther than one hundred miles from the New York state border; relates to training in the prevention and intervention of domestic violence required for forensic investigators.
Requires residential leases to include information on prior flood damage due to a natural flood event, such as heavy rainfall, coastal storm surge, tidal inundation, or river overflow, that the lessor knows or reasonable should know has occurred to such premises and the nature of any such damage.