Lew v. Sobel

A custodial parent’s deliberate frustration of, or active interference with, the noncustodial parent’s visitation rights can warrant the suspension of future child support payments (see Domestic Relations Law § 241; Ledgin v Ledgin, 36 AD3d 669 [2007]; Hiross v Hiross, 224 AD2d 662, 663 [1996]). Pursuant to a prior order of this Court (see Matter of Lew v Sobel, 46 AD3d 893 [2007]), the father paid one half of his child support obligation to the mother and one half to the mother’s attorney, to be held in an escrow account until the mother could certify, to the satisfaction of the Supreme…