Cortland County Department of Social Services Ex Rel. Bottorff v. Dejean

Egan Jr., J.P

Appeal from a corrected order of the Family Court of Cortland County (Ames, J.), entered January 24, 2017, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 4, denied respondent’s motion to vacate certain default orders and judgments entered against him.

In June 2016, petitioner commenced this proceeding on behalf of the subject child’s mother, alleging that respondent (the child’s father) had failed to obey a prior Family Court order directing him to pay child support. Despite admittedly being aware of a scheduled court appearance on the petition on August 29, 2016,…