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THE APPLICABILITY OF THE CHILD SUPPORT STANDARDS ACT (CSSA) WAS NOT ADEQUATELY WAIVED IN THE STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT; THE CHILD SUPPORT PROVISIONS OF THE STIPULATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN VACATED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the child support provisions of the stipulation of settlement should have been vacated because the applicability of Child Support Standards Act (CSSA) was not waived:

Parties to a separation agreement are free to “opt out” of the provisions of the Child Support Standards Act (Domestic Relations Law § 240[1-b] [hereinafter the CSSA]) “so long as their decision is made knowingly”… . To ensure that waivers of the statutory provisions of the CSSA are truly knowingly made, Domestic Relations Law § 240(1-b)(h) requires that stipulations of settlement include provisions: “(1) stating that the parties have been advised of the provisions of the CSSA; (2) stating that the basic child support provisions of the CSSA would presumptively result in the determination of the correct amount of child support to be awarded; (3) stating what the amount of basic child support would have been if calculated pursuant to the CSSA, if the parties’ stipulation or agreement deviates from the basic child support obligation; and (4) setting forth the parties’ reason or reasons for deviating from the CSSA calculation, if they have chosen to deviate” … . “The policy reasons underlying the requirement that waivers must be knowingly made are so strong that agreements that do not comply with the strictures of the CSSA are invalid and unenforceable, at least to the extent of the child support provisions set forth therein” … .

Here, the child support provisions in the parties’ stipulation of settlement did not include any of the foregoing recitals, including a calculation of basic child support pursuant to the CSSA. Haik v Haik, 2021 NY Slip Op 04599, Second Dept 8-4-21

 

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