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FAMILY COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE CREDITED TO FATHER CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS HE MADE WHEN MOTHER WAS INTERFERING WITH HIS VISITATION (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department noted that Family Court should not have credited back to father child support payments he made during the period when mother was interfering his visitation. Such a suspension of child support can only be made prospectively:

… Family Court erred in suspending the father’s child support obligation from June 21, 2017 to February 8, 2018 and ordering the money collected during that period to be credited back to the father. Although a court may suspend child support payments for a period where “the custodial parent has ‘wrongfully interfered with or withheld visitation'” … , absent special circumstances, not present here, the suspension must be prospective …. We further find that even where, as here, child support payments are suspended due to a parent’s interference, the “strong public policy against restitution or recoupment of support payments” is applicable … . Family Court therefore had no authority to “credit[] back” to the father the payments he made during the period of suspension against his current support obligation or the arrears … . Matter of Kanya J. v Christopher K., 2019 NY Slip Op 06030, Third Dept 8-1-19

 

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