Makawi v. Makawi

—In a support proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 4, Abdel Makawi appeals from (1) an order of the Family Court, Queens County (Bogacz, J.), dated July 9, 1997, which, inter alia, found him in willful violation of a prior order of support, and (2) an order of the same court, also dated July 9, 1997, which, upon his failure to purge himself of the contempt, committed him to the Department of Correction for a period of six months.

Ordered that the orders are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

For the purposes of a hearing under Family Court Act § 454, an appellant “is prima…