Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Family Court properly denied the father's objections to the hearing examiner's order, which, inter alia, found that he was in willful violation of a prior order of support, and denied his cross petition for a downward modification of his maintenance and child support obligations. The father's failure to pay support as ordered constituted prima facie evidence of a willful violation of the support order (see
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