The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, and the matter remitted to Supreme Court for a hearing on whether defendant's alleged inability to be self-supporting is such as to warrant an upward modification of maintenance.
Since defendant was seeking modification of maintenance on the basis of her "inability to be self-supporting" (Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [9] [b])...
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