N.Y. Family Court Act § 141: Findings

§ 141. Findings. This act defines the conditions on which the family

court may intervene in the life of a child, parent and spouse. Once

these conditions are satisfied, the court is given a wide range of

powers for dealing with the complexities of family life so that its

action may fit the particular needs of those before it. The judges of

the court are thus given a wide discretion and grave responsibilities.

The people of the state of New York have concluded that legal training

and experience should be required before any person may assume the

office of family court judge and so provided in section twenty,

paragraph a, of the judiciary article of the constitution of the state

of New York. Judges of the family court should also be familiar with

areas of learning and practice that often are not supplied by the

practice of law.