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FATHER HAD BROUGHT HIS CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS CURRENT; FAMILY COURT DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE A SUSPENDED JAIL SENTENCE CONDITIONED ON PAYMENT OF FUTURE CHILD SUPPORT (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Family Court, determined that once father had paid the child support arrears the court did not have the authority to impose a suspended jail sentence:

… [T]he father … is aggrieved by … the order suspending [the jail] sentence upon the condition that he comply with the support order for three years. A jail sentence imposed for a party’s civil contempt in failing to comply with an order — such as the father’s willful failure to pay support as ordered — is not punitive and only serves “the remedial purpose of compelling compliance” with the order … . There was “no remedial purpose to be served by continued confinement” or the threat thereof once the father had brought his support payments current … and, indeed, the order of commitment should not have been issued because the father had already “complie[d] completely with the underlying support order” … . Family Court accordingly erred in suspending the sentence and was obliged to discharge it without condition. Matter of Dupuis v Costello, 2020 NY Slip Op 06992, Third Dept 11-25-20

 

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