Jane H. v. Phillip H.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Aileen Haas Schwartz, J.

The decisive issue in the instant proceeding for support concerns the legislative control of judicial competence in a legal system committed to the doctrine of judicial review of legislative and executive action. In the context of multiple matrimonial actions, that perdurable query assumes *323a new significance in 1980, the very year of the New York State Legislature’s enactment of the so-called equitable distribution law. (L 1980, ch 281.) Just as Marshall McLuhan cautioned regarding television that the medium is the message, so, too, is there risk…