{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-mental-hygiene-law-82.11","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 82.11","heading":"Legal effect of decisions made with support and third party obligations","body":"* § 82.11 Legal effect of decisions made with support and third party\n          obligations.\n  (a) This section shall apply only to decisions made pursuant to\nsupported decision-making agreements created in accordance with this\narticle and following a recognized supported decision-making\nfacilitation or education process, as prescribed by regulations\ngoverning the facilitation and education processes promulgated by the\noffice for people with developmental disabilities. Additionally, such\ndecisions shall be signed by a facilitator.\n  (b) A decision or request made or communicated by a decision-maker\nwith the assistance of a supporter in accordance with the provisions of\na supported decision-making agreement must, notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law, be recognized as the decision or request of the\ndecision-maker and may be enforced by the decision-maker in law or\nequity on the same basis as all others.\n  (c) A person, entity, or agency required to recognize and honor a\ndecision made pursuant to a supported decision-making agreement\nauthorized by this section may require the decision-maker to execute or\nendorse an attestation, as provided in paragraph three of subdivision\n(d) of section 82.10 of this article, as a condition of recognizing and\nhonoring the decision.\n  (d) A person, entity, or agency that receives a supported\ndecision-making agreement must honor a decision made in accordance with\nthe agreement, unless the person, entity, or agency has substantial\ncause to believe the supported decision-making agreement has been\nrevoked, or the decision-maker is being abused, coerced, unduly\ninfluenced, or financially exploited by the supporter, or that the\ndecision will cause the decision-maker substantial and imminent physical\nor financial harm.\n  * NB Effective 90 days from the date that the regulations issued in\naccordance with § 1 of chapter 481 of 2022 appear in the New York State\nRegister or the date such regulations are adopted, whichever is later.","path":["Mental Hygiene Law","Title E. General Provisions","Article 82. Supported Decision-making"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/MHY/82.11","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:45Z","sha256":"daecb685c225923268239719674dc596b909cddfd5e71c8ad291826f4b567b17","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-mental-hygiene-law-82.10","next":"us-ny/n.y.-mental-hygiene-law-82.12"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}