Garcia v. Garcia

In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment dated May 19, 2008, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (McNulty, J.), dated August 1, 2011, which denied, without prejudice, his motion for a downward modification or suspension of his maintenance obligation set forth in a stipulation of settlement dated October 2, 2007, which was incorporated but not merged into the judgment of divorce, and granted the plaintiffs cross motion for leave to enter a money judgment against him in the principal sum of $32,599.04, representing arrears in…