DRL § 77-L

Recognition and enforcement

§ 77-l. Recognition and enforcement. A court of this state shall accord full faith and credit to an order issued by another state and consistent with this article which enforces a child custody determination by a court of another state unless the order has been vacated, stayed, or modified by a court having jurisdiction to do so under title two of this article, unless recognition and enforcement would violate subdivision one-c of section two hundred forty of this chapter or section one thousand eighty-five of the family court act.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/DOM/77-L

In plain English

NY gives full faith and credit to another state's enforcement order consistent with this article — unless it's been vacated/stayed/modified by a proper court, or would violate DRL § 240(1-c)/FCA § 1085. ★

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 6 — The JG-22 Uniform Rules and Everything Else and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.