N.Y. Military Law § 253: Military service by parent; effect on child custody proceedings

§ 253. Military service by parent; effect on child custody

proceedings. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the

contrary, child custody proceedings filed in a court of competent

jurisdiction in this state, involving a parent who is activated,

deployed, or temporarily assigned to military service shall be governed

by subdivision (f) of section six hundred fifty-one of the family court

act, section seventy-five-l or paragraph (a-2) of subdivision one of

section two hundred forty of the domestic relations law.