The new fiscal budget includes funding for 20 new Family Court judges starting next year, but the positions have yet to be created by the Legislature. If history is any lesson, the Legislature’s ability to successfully create these judgeships and distribute them within New York City and among upstate counties is not readily apparent.
The “elephant in the room” is the Legislature’s near-legendary inability to agree on the distribution new judgeships for the Criminal Court, Supreme and Civil Courts.
