Estrin v. Yerry

Appeal from four orders of the Family Court of Ulster County (Mizel, J.), entered January 14, 2010 and January 20, 2010, which granted petitioner’s applications, in two proceedings pursuant to Family Ct Act article 4, to hold respondent in willful violation of a prior order of support and committed him to one year in jail.

Pursuant to a 2007 Family Court order, respondent is required to pay . petitioner $140 per week to support their child (born in 2000). In September 2008, petitioner brought the first of these two proceedings alleging that respondent had willfully violated the support order…