Section 424. Probation services

1. A local probation service may provide
  services to a party seeking to establish, modify or  enforce  a  support
  obligation  where  there  is  a  contract  with  the  appropriate social
  services district for the performance  of  support  collection  services
  under section one hundred eleven-h of the social services law.
    2.  A  local probation service may provide services to persons ordered
  to pay support seeking to modify such orders.
    3. The probation service may not prevent any person who wishes to file
  a petition under this article from having access to the court  for  that
  purpose nor may the probation service compel any person to appear at any
  conference, produce any papers or visit any place.