MATTER OF POWERS v. POWERS


86 N.Y.2d 63 (1995)

653 N.E.2d 1154

629 N.Y.S.2d 984

In the Matter of Bernadette L. Powers, Appellant, v. Allen B. Powers, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 14, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Nichols, Glens Falls, and Jennifer A. Jensen for appellant.

Gregory V. Canale, Glens Falls, and William V. Canale for respondent.

Judges SIMONS, TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH, LEVINE and CIPARICK concur.


Chief Judge KAYE.

"As every practitioner knows, the problems of enforcing a support order could fill a book" (Besharov, Introductory Practice Commentary, McKinney's Cons Laws of NY, Book 29A, Family Ct Act art 4, at 5). The present chapter in the sad volume already filled by the parties before us — parents of five minor children — centers on whether respondent father's failure to pay support was...

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