Matter of Cordero v. Commissioner of Social Services, Support Collection Unit

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Saratoga County (Jensen, J.), entered August 8, 2013, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 4, denied petitioner’s objections to the order of a Support Magistrate.

Petitioner, the father of a son (born in 1994), has been incarcerated since 2009. Although a Warren County Support Magistrate (Clark Jr., S.M.) suspended petitioner’s child support obligation upon consent in 2012, petitioner continued to owe retroactive support to Saratoga County for the repayment of public assistance funds received by the child. To recoup these funds,…