MATTER OF MAKAWI v. MAKAWI


262 A.D.2d 487 (1999)

692 N.Y.S.2d 106

In the Matter of CARMEN MAKAWI, Respondent, v. ABDEL MAKAWI, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided June 14, 1999.


Ordered that the orders are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

For the purposes of a hearing under Family Court Act § 454, an appellant "is prima facie presumed * * * to have sufficient means to support his or her spouse and children under the age of 21" (Matter of Powers v Powers, 86 N.Y.2d 63, 68-69). "[P]roof that [the appellant] has failed to pay support as Ordered alone establishes [the] petitioner's direct...

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