Reese v. Reese

In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment entered December 18, 2007, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (J. Murphy, J.), entered April 5, 2012, which granted, without a hearing, those branches of the plaintiff’s cross motion which were for an upward modification of the defendant’s child support obligation set forth in a stipulation of settlement, which was incorporated but not merged into the judgment of divorce, and for an award of an attorney’s fee.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts and in the exercise of…