Preliminary orders; notice and appointment of counsel
§ 1022-a. Preliminary orders; notice and appointment of counsel. At a hearing held pursuant to section one thousand twenty-two of this part at which the respondent is present, the court shall advise the respondent and any non-respondent parent who is present of the allegations in the application and shall appoint counsel for each in accordance with section two hundred sixty-two of this act, unless waived.
At a § 1022 hearing where the respondent appears, the court advises them of the allegations and appoints counsel (per § 262) unless waived.
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.
This provision appears in Volume 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.