Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1994

Erie County Department of Social Services ex rel. Davis v. Clark

Erie County Department of Social Services ex rel. Davis v. Clark
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 16, 1994
209 A.D.2d 1035; 619 N.Y.S.2d 1022
Erie County Department of Social Services ex rel. Davis v. Clark

Opinion of the Court

—Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: The Hearing Examiner properly determined that application of the Child Support Standards Act would be unjust and inappropriate in these support proceedings (see, Family Ct Act § 413 [1] [f]). The aggregate award of $115 per week for the support of respondent’s 11 children was not unconscionable under the circumstances of these cases.

Although the Hearing Examiner established precourt costs for the medical and confinement costs incurred at the births of the children, those costs may not be recovered from respondent because he did not have sufficient means to pay any of them when they were incurred (see, Matter of Steuben County Dept. of Social Servs. v Deats, 76 NY2d 451, 458). (Appeal from Order of Erie County Family Court, Honan, J.—Enforcement Proceeding.) Present—Lawton, J. P., Fallon, Wesley, Doerr and Boehm, JJ.

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