N.Y. FCT Law § 342.1

§ 342.1. The fact-finding hearing; order of procedure. The order of\nthe fact-finding hearing shall be as follows:\n 1. The court shall permit the parties to deliver opening addresses. If\nboth parties deliver opening addresses, the presentment agency's address\nshall be delivered first.\n 2. The presentment agency must offer evidence in support of the\npetition.\n 3. The respondent may offer evidence in his defense.\n 4. The presentment agency may offer evidence in rebuttal of the\nrespondent's evidence, and the respondent may then offer evidence in\nrebuttal of the presentment agency's evidence. The court may in its\ndiscretion permit the parties to offer further rebuttal or surrebuttal\nevidence in this pattern. In the interest of justice, the court may\npermit either party to offer evidence upon rebuttal which is not\ntechnically of a rebuttal nature but more properly a part of the\noffering party's original case.\n 5. At the conclusion of the evidence, the respondent shall have the\nright to deliver a summation.\n 6. The presentment agency shall then have the right to deliver a\nsummation.\n 7. The court must then consider the case and enter a finding.\n