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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Ontario County Department of Social Services, on Behalf of Tina M. Powers, Respondent, v Lawrence W. Jackson, Appellant.
    [624 NYS2d 1011]
   —Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Family Court properly denied the objections to the Hearing Examiner’s order without inquiring further into respondent’s ability to pay child support arrears that accrued during the period of respondent’s incarceration. "[I]t is undisputed that [respondent’s] current financial hardship is solely the result of his wrongful conduct culminating in a felony conviction and imprisonment” (Matter of Knights v Knights, 71 NY2d 865, 867). Thus, the court properly declined to reduce or annul the accrued arrears (see, Family Ct Act § 451). (Appeal from Order of Ontario County Family Court, Harvey, J.—Child Support.) Present—Denman, P. J., Green, Fallon, Balio and Boehm, JJ.