If you can answer “Yes” to any one of the three questions shown below, you can ask
for a Buffalo, New York divorce on the grounds of abandonment:

• Did your spouse move out of the marital home at least one year ago and not move back – without any good reason and without you agreeing to it?
• Even if your spouse is still living in the marital home, has your spouse refused to have sexual relations with you for at least one year,without good reason and without you agreeing to it, even though you have continued to ask your spouse to have sexual relations with you?
• Has your spouse refused to let you into the marital home for at least one year, without good reason and without you agreeing to it, even though you have continued to ask your spouse to let you into the home?

Child abuse and maltreatment investigative and prevention resources are severely limited.

Preventing the waste of such resources is necessary to ensure that the greatest number of children at risk receive the protection they need.

A New York State law, effective February 1, 2009, expands the provisions of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree to include the knowing, false reporting of child abuse or maltreatment.

It is intended to deter those who knowingly make these false allegations, and thus preserve precious resources while punishing those who would knowingly cause an unnecessary diversion of these resources.
In addition, it is intended to deter harassment because false reports of child abuse or maltreatment have been used as a vehicle to harass parents, guardians, family members or others, particularly in connection with child custody proceedings.

This law makes it a crime to knowingly report a false claim of child abuse or maltreatment, when the false report is provided to the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment, or the false report is provided to any person required to report cases of suspected child abuse, or maltreatment under the social services law, knowing that the person is required to report these cases and with the intent that the alleged occurrence be reported to the statewide central register.