N.Y. General Obligations Law § 3-107: Certain contracts of parents or guardians respecting employment of infants not enforceable unless approved

§ 3-107. Certain contracts of parents or guardians respecting

employment of infants not enforceable unless approved. Where a contract

providing for performance or rendering of services by an infant is one

which the supreme court or surrogate's court has jurisdiction to approve

as provided in section 3-105 of this chapter, no parent or guardian of

the infant with respect to whose services the contract is made shall,

unless the contract is so approved, be liable on the contract either as

a party or as a guarantor of its performance:

1. If the infant was a resident of the state at the time the contract

was made or at the time of the event by reason of which liability is

sought to be imposed, by reason of any disaffirmance, repudiation or

breach of the contract or any term thereof, or any failure or refusal of

the infant to perform, or

2. In any other case, by reason of any failure or refusal of the

infant to perform or render services required or permitted by the

contract to be performed or rendered in this state or any failure or

refusal of the parent or guardian to cause such services to be rendered

or performed.