Required findings concerning notice
§ 1041. Required findings concerning notice. No factfinding hearing may commence under this article unless the court enters a finding:
(a) that the parent or other person legally responsible for the child's care is present at the hearing and has been served with a copy of the petition; or
(b) if the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of the child is not present, that every reasonable effort has been made to effect service under section ten hundred thirty-six or ten hundred thirty-seven.
No fact-finding may start unless the court finds the parent/PLR is present and served, OR (if absent) that every reasonable effort to serve (§§ 1036–1037) was made. ★
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.