Failure to pay child support, as ordered, constitutes prima facie evidence of a willful violation, at which point the burden shifts to the respondent to offer competent credible evidence of his or her inability to make payments as ordered (Family Ct Act § 454[3][a]; Matter of Powers v Powers,
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