Commissioner of Social Services v. Merchant

Order, Family Court, New York County (Sheldon Rand, J.), entered on or about August 13, 2001, which denied respondent’s objections to the Hearing Examiner’s June 13, 2001 order of support denying respondent’s application for a downward modification of his child support obligation, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Respondent, in seeking downward modification of his child support obligation, failed to meet his burden to demonstrate a substantial, unanticipated or unavoidable change in circumstances rendering it unreasonable to require him to continue to pay child support at the level ordered…