Commissioner of Social Services Ex Rel. Teti v. Karcher

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Columbia County (Koweek, J.), entered May 19, 2014, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 4, committed respondent to jail for 90 days for willfully violating a prior order of support.

Respondent is the father of two sons (born in 1992 and 1994). Following their births, he was ordered to pay certain birth expenses and other child support. In June 2013, after respondent owed a total of $13,722.02 in child support arrears, he had made no payments in nearly a decade and he had been found to have willfully violated the support order on…