The court properly confirmed the Support Magistrate's finding that respondent willfully violated the support order. Failure to pay support, as ordered, constituted prima facie evidence of a willful violation (see Family Ct Act § 454[3][a]). The burden then shifted to respondent to present "some competent, credible evidence of his inability to make the required payments" (Matter of Powers v Powers,
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