New York Continues to Fail Its Children, Safe Parents, and Taxpayers.
Children Shouldn’t Wait Years for the Support They’re Legally Entitled To - Especially Not at the Public’s Expense.
Enough is Enough.
Lo’s Law is Coming.
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For too long, unsafe parents have gamed the New York Family Court system, depriving their own children of court-ordered financial support, while shifting the burden to safe parents and taxpayers alike.
By allowing loopholes to persist and by failing to enforce existing statutes, the Court continues to effectively endorse evasion tactics - enabling willful violators to disregard the Court's orders and directives, drag out proceedings, conceal assets, misuse public resources and avoid accountability. These actions are all subsidized by public funds.
Children and public funds must be protected. New Yorkers should never be forced to subsidize abusive parents. Every child deserves the resources they are legally entitled to - without delay, evasion, or excuses.
Safe parents are taking action to demand accountability from our Family Court System.
Federal legislation is needed to reduce enforcement costs, protect taxpayers, and compel soft-on-crime states like New York to actually follow the law.
The Story Behind Lo's Law:
For approximately two and a half years, a New York child has been systematically deprived of the court-ordered support they are legally entitled to, despite the custodial parent’s efforts to enforce valid orders. What should have been a straightforward enforcement proceeding has instead exposed shocking systemic failures and egregious mismanagement in a New York Family Court.
The custodial parent has faced months and months of delayed hearings, endless adjournments, and repeated court appearances that have clogged the system and denied other families timely justice. Certified records of the child’s significant medical and educational needs have not led to timely enforcement. Taxpayer-funded Assigned Counsel has been provided to the non-custodial parent on multiple occasions, despite confirmed ineligibility.
This is not mere inefficiency. It is court-sanctioned financial abuse of vulnerable families. By failing to enforce its own orders and existing laws with meaningful consequences, the Family Court has effectively forced a lone parent and child to subsidize their own deprivation — while New York taxpayers foot the bill for prolonged proceedings and legal services.
These failures have significantly limited the child’s access to prescribed therapies, ongoing medical and dental services, and consistent childcare required to address the child’s documented medical and educational needs.
Lo’s Law was born from this injustice. It exists because New York’s Family Court has demonstrated, in painful detail, that it cannot and will not reliably enforce its own laws. Children should not have to wait years for the support they are legally entitled to — and the public should never be forced to subsidize post-separation abuse.
Lo's Law is a Call to Action!
We invite safe parents across New York who have faced similar challenges with child support enforcement — particularly cases where non-compliant or unsafe parents have repeatedly received publicly funded legal representation — to share their experiences.
Stay tuned!
We are finalizing the language
for Lo’s Law, with strong emphasis on the following core objectives:
Protecting Children and Public Funds
Lo’s Law will prevent the public from subsidizing post-separation abuse through our Family Court System.
It will strengthen child support enforcement and protect safe parents, taxpayers, and children from court-sanctioned financial abuse.
A Common Sense Solution
Lo’s Law will prevent public funds from being used to subsidize post-separation abuse through our Family Court system.
It will strengthen child support enforcement and protect safe parents, taxpayers, and children from public-funded and court-sanctioned post-separation abuse.
It is about time that financial abuse is treated like the serious crime that it is. It depletes families, deprives children of the support they are legally entitled to, and drains taxpayer resources. No perpetrator should be able to rely on public funds to continue engaging in post-separation abuse.
A Call for Federal Oversight
New York’s Family Court has proven it cannot/will not consistently enforce its own child support laws.
New York State Law allows non-indigent, non-compliant parents to repeatedly seek taxpayer-funded counsel.
This denies truly indigent litigants the representation and support they actually need. It also allows non-compliant parents to drag out proceedings for indefinite amounts of time under the guise that they’re “gaining legal representation.”
Despite existing statutes and rules like 22 NYCRR § 205.43, willful violators are routinely allowed to drag proceedings for years, evade discovery, avoid willfulness findings, and receive taxpayer-funded legal representation - even when clearly ineligible.
Safe parents and children are left unprotected while public resources are wasted.
Federal legislation and oversight are urgently needed to reduce enforcement costs, protect taxpayers nationwide, and compel states like New York to stop enabling post-separation financial abuse and actually enforce child support orders.
No family should have to wait years for justice that should be guaranteed by law.
