RETRIEVE BILL
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3499
2003-2004 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 28, 2003
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Introduced by Sen. VOLKER -- (at request of the Judiciary) -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to compen-
sation of guardians ad litem
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1204 of the civil practice law and rules is amended
2 to read as follows:
3 § 1204. Compensation of guardian ad litem. A court may allow a guardi-
4 an ad litem a reasonable compensation for [his] the guardian's services
5 to be paid in whole or part by any other party or from any recovery had
6 on behalf of the person whom such guardian represents or from such
7 person's other property, or if there is no such source, compensation for
8 services shall be from state funds in the same amounts established by
9 subdivision three of section thirty-five of the judiciary law, if the
10 guardian ad litem has been appointed for an infant, and out of county
11 funds in the same amounts established by section seven hundred twenty-
12 two-b of the county law, if appointed for an adult. No order allowing
13 compensation shall be made except on an affidavit of the guardian or
14 [his] the guardian's attorney showing the services rendered.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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