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BECAUSE NO PETITION HAD BEEN FILED IN THIS SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDING, FAMILY COURT DID NOT HAVE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, A DEFECT THAT MAY BE BROUGHT UP AT ANY TIME (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined Family Court did not have subject matter jurisdiction over the support enforcement proceeding because no petition had been filed. The support magistrate had erroneously treated a request by Florida to register the Florida support judgment in New York as an “enforcement petition:”

The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (see Family Ct Act art 5-B) provides that “[a] registered support order issued in another state . . . is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of this state” (Family Ct Act § 580-603 [b]). In New York, proceedings for the violation of a support order “shall be originated by the filing of a petition containing an allegation that the respondent has failed to obey a lawful [support] order,” and Family Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to determine a violation claim without that petition (Family Ct Act § 453 … ). DSS was free to, and eventually did, file a petition alleging that the father had failed to comply with the support provisions contained in the 2014 judgment (see Family Ct Act §§ 453 [a]; 580-603 [b]). This proceeding did not arise out of that petition, however, and was not rendered viable by its filing … . Family Court accordingly lacked subject matter jurisdiction to render the appealed-from order, and “the claim that a court lacked subject matter jurisdiction ‘may be raised at any time and may not be waived'” … . Matter of Pudvah v Pudvah, 2019 NY Slip Op 03414, Third Dept 5-2-19

 

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