Case Name: Peter Lawrence, Respondent, v. Lorraine Lawrence, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1975-04-21
Citations: 47 A.D.2d 927
Docket Number: 
Parties: Peter Lawrence, Respondent, v Lorraine Lawrence, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 47
Pages: 927–928

Head Matter:
Peter Lawrence, Respondent, v Lorraine Lawrence, Appellant.

Opinion:
In a matrimonial action, defendant appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order (erroneously described in her notice of appeal as a memorandum decision) of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered September 30r 1974,-as, after a hearing, denied her motion for an upward modification of a prior support award for the infant daughter of the parties. Order reversed insofar as appealed from, without costs, and matter remanded to Special Term for a further hearing and a new determination in accordance herewith. A hearing was held on a motion by defendant for an increase in child support. At the outset of the hearing defendant submitted an affidavit by her attorney. After plaintiff testified, defendant offered to call a witness, but the trial court terminated the hearing without allowing the witness to testify. Under the facts of this case, in which defendant had not previously called a witness, Special Term should have permitted her to call the witness. Gulotta, P. J., Rabin, Hopkins, Munder and Shapiro, JJ., concur.