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FAMILY COURT SHOULD HAVE HELD A HEARING ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO HOLD DEFENDANT IN CIVIL CONTEMPT FOR FAILURE TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT AND DEFENDANT’S PETITION TO REDUCE THE CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS; FAMILY COURT HAD GRANTED DEFENDANT’S PETITION AND DENIED PLAINTIFF’S MOTION WITHOUT HOLDING A HEARING (SECOND DEPT). ​

The Second Department, reversing Family Court, determined a hearing was necessary on plaintiff’s motion to hold defendant in civil contempt for failure to pay child support and on defendant’s petition to reduce his child support payments:

… [T]he parties’ submissions presented issues of fact with regard to the defendant’s actual income … , which the Supreme Court failed to ascertain … and whether or not he was and is able to comply with his child support obligation under the judgment of divorce … . Under such circumstances, the court erred in granting the defendant’s petition to modify the child support provisions of the judgment of divorce to the extent of directing him to pay $25 per month in child support retroactive to July 10, 2018, and in denying that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was to adjudge the defendant in civil contempt for failure to pay child support without conducting a hearing … . Zeidman v Zeidman, 2022 NY Slip Op 00906, Second Dept 2-9-22

 

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