2019 New York Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services
Title 4 - Support and Reimbursement
528 - Support of Children in the Division.

§ 528. Support  of  children  in the division. 1. The court placing or
referring a child  with  the  division  shall  ascertain  the  financial
condition  of his or her parents or other persons responsible for his or
her support and, if it shall be found that  any  such  parent  or  other
person  is able to pay any part of the cost of maintenance of such child
while in or being maintained at the expense of the division,  the  court
shall  make  an order directing such parent or other person to make such
payments as the court may decide to be fair  and  equitable,  and  shall
notify  the appropriate social services official and the division of the
making of such order and amount ordered to be paid.
  2. Proceedings shall be had and payments shall be directed to be  made
and  shall  be  made,  in  accordance with the family court act or other
applicable statute, as in the case of orders for support  of  delinquent
children committed by the court to private institutions.
  3.  In case of failure on the part of any person to whom such order is
directed to comply  with  such  order  and  make  the  payments  thereby
directed,  the court making such order shall proceed against such person
in accordance with the family court  act  or  other  statute  applicable
thereto.
  4.  (a)  Record of amounts received as payment under such orders shall
be kept by the officer or person receiving the same and reports  thereof
shall  be  made  to  the  division in such form and at such times as the
division shall require.
  (b) The amounts received and collected shall be  divided  between  the
social  services  district collecting the same and the state in the same
proportion as they bore the cost of maintaining the  children  affected.
The  manner  and  amounts  of payments to be made to the state by social
service districts shall be determined under regulations of the division.