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N.Y. FCT Law § 1052-C

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Duty to report investigations to locate non-respondent parents or relatives

Official statutory text

§ 1052-c. Duty to report investigations to locate non-respondent\nparents or relatives. Upon a determination by the court to enter an\norder of disposition placing the child in accordance with section one\nthousand fifty-five of this part, the court shall immediately require\nthe local social services district to report to the court the results of\nany investigation to locate any non-respondent parent or relatives of\nthe child, including all of the child's grandparents, all suitable\nrelatives identified by any respondent parent and any non-respondent\nparent and all relatives identified by a child over the age of five as\nrelatives who play or have played a significant positive role in the\nchild's life, as required pursuant to section one thousand seventeen of\nthe article. Such report shall include whether any non-respondent\nparent has expressed an interest in seeking custody of the child or\nwhether any relative who has been located has expressed an interest in\nbecoming a foster parent for the child or in seeking custody or care of\nthe child.\n

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