A proceeding to challenge testing directive · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 565. A proceeding to challenge testing directive. The court is authorized to hear and decide motions to challenge a directive by the department of social services requiring a party to submit to genetic testing, pursuant to section one hundred eleven-k of the social services law. Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to preclude the authority of a local social services district from filing a petition pursuant to this article.
Family Court hears motions challenging an order by social services to take a DNA (genetic) test issued under SSL § 111-k. This does not stop the local social services district from filing its own paternity petition.
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.