N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 18 § 422.4

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 51, December 18, 2024

Section 422.4 - Referral prohibitions

(a) Social services districts are prohibited from making referrals of approved applications for foster care maintenance payments to the child support enforcement unit of the social services district under the following circumstances:

(1) if the appropriate social services official determines that such referral will adversely affect the health, safety or welfare of the child on whose behalf such payments are to be made or other persons in the child's household or will adversely affect the length of the child's placement or impair the ability of the child to return home when discharged from foster care;

(2) when a surrender of a child born out-of-wedlock has been accepted by the appropriate social services official from the mother or father of such child, the parent surrendering the child must not be referred to the child support enforcement unit of the social services district; and

(3) in the case of a non-adopting spouse, when a non-adopting spouse is living separate and apart from an adopting spouse pursuant to a written agreement of separation or when a non-adopting spouse has been living separate and apart from an adopting spouse for at least three years prior to the adopting spouse's commencing an adoption proceeding.

(b) A determination not to make a referral pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section and the reason therefor must be documented in the uniform case record.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 422.4