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DENIAL OF MOTHER’S REQUEST TO PRESENT EVIDENCE OF HER FINANCIAL SITUATION WAS AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION; MOTHER WAS FACING INCARCERATION FOR VIOLATING HER CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS; NEW CONFIRMATION OF WILLFULNESS HEARING ORDERED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Family Court, determined it was an abuse of discretion to deny mother’s request to present evidence of her financial situation and her request for an adjournment to obtain additional proof of her financial situation in this child support proceeding. Mother was facing incarceration for violation of her support obligations:

… [A]lthough the mother appeared in person before the Family Court at the confirmation of willfulness hearing, and proffered documentary and testimonial evidence in support of her assertion that she was indigent and unable to pay child support, the court did not permit the mother to adduce any evidence regarding her financial situation, and denied her request for an adjournment to obtain additional evidence of her inability to work. This was an abuse of discretion … . Since the mother was facing a potential period of incarceration of up to six months in the event that the court determined that her failure to pay child support was willful (see Family Ct Act § 454[3][a]), the mother’s testimony was “essential to the court’s determination as to whether she had had the ability to pay or willfully disobeyed the prior support order” … . If the mother had been given an opportunity to substantiate her claimed inability to pay, and she had done so, the court would have been constrained to deny the father’s petition … . Matter of Palombelli v Guglielmo, 2020 NY Slip Op 05903, Second Dept 10-21-20

 

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