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NY A04880
Bill
Status
2/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas
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AI Summary
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Establishes a streamlined "confirmatory adoption" process for children born through assisted reproduction, allowing parents whose parentage is already legally recognized to confirm their status without requiring hearings, investigations, criminal background checks, or best interest assessments
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Creates a legal framework for "presumed parentage" where an individual is presumed to be a parent if married to the birth parent, married within 300 days of the child's birth, or resided with and openly held out the child as their own for at least one year
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Allows courts to adjudicate more than two legal parents for a child if determined to be in the child's best interest, and permits custody awards to be made among multiple parents
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Expands adoption eligibility from "two unmarried adult intimate partners" to "any unmarried adults who intend to parent together," removing numerical limits on petitioners for adoption
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Modifies child support provisions throughout the Family Court Act to replace language referring to "either" or "both" parents with "any" or "one or more" parents to accommodate multi-parent families
Legislative Description
Establishes confirmatory adoptions providing for the adoption of children born as a result of assisted reproduction; allows for more than two persons to be named parents of a child; establishes presumed parentage and provides for the challenge and adjudication thereof; repeals certain provisions of the domestic relations law and the family court act relating thereto.
Last Action
referred to judiciary
1/7/2026