ALBANY – Advocates against domestic violence yesterday stumped for a long-lingering bill that would amend the Family Court Act and Criminal Procedure Law to provide equal protections for residents of non-traditional households.
The so-called Expanded Definition of Household bill seeks to remedy a situation in which domestic violence victims who are not related by blood or marriage or do not have a child in common cannot obtain a civil order of protection. Consequently, the heightened protections provided under the 1994 Family Protection and Domestic Violence Intervention Act essentially do not apply to gay couples, heterosexual couples who are not married and elderly people who live with people to whom they are not related.
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