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N.Y. C.P.L.R. 5240

Modification or protective order; supervision of enforcement

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Arias v. Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt LLP (2017)

Most recently applied in In re Futterman (April 2019)

2014-09-22

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§ 5240. Modification or protective order; supervision of enforcement.\nThe court may at any time, on its own initiative or the motion of any\ninterested person, and upon such notice as it may require, make an order\ndenying, limiting, conditioning, regulating, extending or modifying the\nuse of any enforcement procedure. Section 3104 is applicable to\nprocedures under this article.\n

Official source: NYS Open Legislation (New York State Senate). Reproduced from public-domain New York statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.