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Automatic Increase in Child Support Ruled Unenforceable Penalty

Posted on May 30, 2016
Posted in Agreements and Stipulations

In its May 25, 2016 decision in Fitzpatrick v. Fitzpatrick, the Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed the denial of an ex-wife’s application to enforce a divorce settlement provision that called for an automatic increase in child support upon the ex-husband’s default in any other obligation of that settlement.

The parties entered into that separation…

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