Case Name: Nancy Higbee, Respondent, v. Douglas Higbee, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-04-26
Citations: 260 A.D.2d 603
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nancy Higbee, Respondent, v Douglas Higbee, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 260
Pages: 603–603

Head Matter:
Nancy Higbee, Respondent, v Douglas Higbee, Appellant.
[688 NYS2d 669]

Opinion:
—In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Shapiro, J.), dated September 9, 1997, which, upon a determination that he was in willful contempt of prior orders of the same court directing, inter alia, the payment of child support to the plaintiff, committed him to jail for a term of six months, unless he purged himself of his contempt by payment of the sum of $10,383.55.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The record supports the conclusion that the defendant's refusal to comply with prior orders of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, directing the payment of child support to the plaintiff was willful and calculated to defeat the plaintiff's rights, and that other means of enforcement would be ineffectual (see, Domestic Relations Law § 245). Mangano, P. J., H. Miller, Feuerstein, Schmidt and Smith, JJ., concur.