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2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 10 - Action for Divorce › 170-A - Special Action.

§  170-a. Special action. a. A spouse against whom a decree of divorce
has been obtained under the provisions of subdivision  five  or  six  of
section  one hundred seventy of this chapter, where the decree, judgment
or agreement of separation was obtained or entered into prior to January
twenty-first, nineteen hundred seventy, may institute an action in which
there shall be recoverable, in addition to any rights under this or  any
other  provisions  of  law,  an  amount  equivalent  to the value of any
economic and property rights of which the spouse was deprived by  virtue
of  such  decree,  except  where the grounds for the separation judgment
would have excluded recovery of economic and property rights.
b. In determining the  value  of  the  economic  and  property  rights
described  in  subdivision  a  hereof, the plaintiff's interest shall be
calculated as though the defendant died intestate and as if the death of
the defendant had immediately antedated the divorce.
c. If the defendant shall  establish  that  intervening  circumstances
have  rendered  an  award described in subdivision a hereof inequitable,
the court may award to the plaintiff such portion of such  economic  and
property rights as justice may require.
d.  If  the defendant shall establish that the plaintiff has expressly
or impliedly waived all or some portion of  the  aforesaid  economic  or
property  rights,  the  court shall deny recovery of all such rights, or
deny recovery of the portion of such rights as justice may require.
e. Actions under this subdivision may be brought:
(i) Within two years of the enactment of this section, or
(ii) Within two years  of  the  obtainment  of  the  subject  divorce,
whichever is later.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 10 - Action for Divorce › 171 - When Divorce Denied, Although Adultery Proved.

§ 171. When divorce denied, although adultery proved. In either of the
  following  cases,  the  plaintiff is not entitled to a divorce, although
  the adultery is established:
1. Where the offense was committed by  the  procurement  or  with  the
  connivance of the plaintiff.
2.  Where the offense charged has been forgiven by the plaintiff.  The
  forgiveness may be proven, either affirmatively,  or  by  the  voluntary
  cohabitation of the parties with the knowledge of the fact.
3.  Where  there  has  been  no  express forgiveness, and no voluntary
  cohabitation of the parties, but the action  was  not  commenced  within
  five years after the discovery by the plaintiff of the offense charged.
4.  Where  the  plaintiff  has also been guilty of adultery under such
  circumstances that the defendant would have been entitled, if  innocent,
  to a divorce.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 10 - Action for Divorce › 172 - Co-Respondent as Party.

§  172.  Co-respondent  as  party. 1. In an action brought to obtain a
  divorce on the ground of adultery the plaintiff or defendant may serve a
  copy of his pleading on a  co-respondent  named  therein.  At  any  time
  within  twenty  days after such service, the co-respondent may appear to
  defend such action so far as the issues affect him. If no  such  service
  be  made,  then at any time before the entry of judgment a co-respondent
  named in any of the pleadings may make a written demand on any party for
  a copy of a summons and a pleading served by such party, which  must  be
  served  within  ten  days  thereafter,  and he may appear to defend such
  action so far as the issues affect him.
2. In an action for divorce where a  co-respondent  has  appeared  and
  defended,  in case no one of the allegations of adultery controverted by
  such co-respondent shall be proven, such co-respondent shall be entitled
  to a bill of costs against the person naming him as such  co-respondent,
  which  bill of costs shall consist only of the sum now allowed by law as
  a trial fee, and disbursements.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 10 - Action for Divorce › 175 - Legitimacy of Children.

§  175.  Legitimacy  of  children.  1. Where the action for divorce is
  brought by the wife, the legitimacy of any child of the parties, born or
  begotten before the commencement of the action, is not affected  by  the
  judgment dissolving the marriage.
2.  Where  the  action  for  divorce  is  brought  by the husband, the
  legitimacy of a child born or begotten  before  the  commission  of  the
  offense  charged  is not affected by a judgment dissolving the marriage;
  but the legitimacy of any other child of the wife may be  determined  as
  one  of  the  issues  in  the  action.  In  the  absence of proof to the
  contrary, the  legitimacy  of  all  the  children  begotten  before  the
  commencement of the action must be presumed.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 11 - Action for Separation › 202 - Defense of Justification.

§  202.  Defense  of  justification.  The  defendant  in an action for
  separation from  bed  and  board  may  set  up,  in  justification,  the
  misconduct  of  the plaintiff; and if that defense is established to the
  satisfaction of the court, the defendant is entitled to judgment.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 11 - Action for Separation › 203 - Judgment for Separation Revocable.

§  203.  Judgment for separation revocable. Upon the joint application
  of  the  parties,  accompanied  with  satisfactory  evidence  of   their
  reconciliation,  a  judgment for a separation, forever, or for a limited
  period, rendered as prescribed in this article, may be  revoked  at  any
  time  by  the  court  which rendered it, subject to such regulations and
  restrictions as the court thinks fit to impose.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 11-A - Special Provisions Relating to Divorce and Separation › 210 - Limitations on Actions for Divorce and Separation.

§  210.  Limitations  on actions for divorce and separation. No action
for divorce or separation may be maintained on a ground which arose more
than five years before the date of the commencement of that  action  for
divorce or separation except where:
(a)  In  an  action for divorce, the grounds therefor are one of those
specified in subdivision (2), (4), (5) or (6)  of  section  one  hundred
seventy of this chapter, or
(b) In an action for separation, the grounds therefor are one of those
specified in subdivision 2 or 4 of section two hundred of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 11-A - Special Provisions Relating to Divorce and Separation › 211 - Pleadings, Proof and Motions.

§  211.  Pleadings,  proof  and motions. A matrimonial action shall be
  commenced by the filing of a  summons  with  the  notice  designated  in
  section  two  hundred  thirty-two  of  this  chapter,  or  a summons and
  verified complaint as provided in section  three  hundred  four  of  the
  civil  practice  law  and  rules.  A  final judgment shall be entered by
  default for want of appearance or pleading, or  by  consent,  only  upon
  competent  oral  proof or upon written proof that may be considered on a
  motion for summary judgment.  Where a complaint or  counterclaim  in  an
  action  for  divorce or separation charges adultery, the answer or reply
  thereto may  be  made  without  verifying  it,  except  that  an  answer
  containing  a counterclaim must be verified as to that counterclaim. All
  other pleadings in a matrimonial action shall be verified.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 12 - Dissolution of Marriage on Ground of Absence › 220 - Special Proceeding to Dissolve Marriage on the Ground of Absence.

§  220.  Special  proceeding  to  dissolve  marriage  on the ground of
  absence.  A special proceeding to dissolve a marriage on the  ground  of
  absence may be maintained in either of the following cases:
1.  Where  the  petitioner  is a resident of this state and has been a
  resident thereof for one year immediately preceding the commencement  of
  the special proceeding.
2.  Where the matrimonial domicile at the time of the disappearance of
  the absent spouse was within the state.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 12 - Dissolution of Marriage on Ground of Absence › 221 - Procedure.

§  221.  Procedure. The petition shall allege that the husband or wife
  of such party has absented himself or herself for five successive  years
  then  last  past  without  being known to such party to be living during
  that time; that such party believes such husband or wife to be dead; and
  that a diligent search has been made to discover evidence  showing  that
  such husband or wife is living, and no such evidence has been found. The
  court  shall  thereupon  by order require notice of the presentation and
  object of such petition to be published in a newspaper  in  the  English
  language  designated  in the order as most likely to give notice to such
  absent husband or wife once each week for three successive  weeks;  such
  notice  shall  be  directed  to  the husband or wife who has so absented
  himself or herself and shall state the time and  place  of  the  hearing
  upon  such  petition, which time shall be not less than forty days after
  the completion of the publication of such notice; said  notice  must  be
  subscribed  with  the  name  of  the petitioner and with the name of the
  petitioner's attorney and with his office address,  specifying  a  place
  within the state where there is a post-office. If in a city, said notice
  must  also  set  forth  the  street  and  street number, if any, of such
  attorney's  office  address  or  other  suitable  designation   of   the
  particular locality in which said office address is located. In addition
  to  the  foregoing requirements said notice must be in substantially the
  following form,  the  blanks  being  properly  filled:  "Supreme  court,
  ..........county.  In  the  matter  of  the  application of..........for
  dissolution of his or her  marriage  with........    To................:
  Take   notice   that  a  petition  has  been  presented  to  this  court
  by............... , your husband or wife, for the  dissolution  of  your
  marriage  on  the  ground  that  you  have  absented  yourself  for five
  successive years last past without being known  to  him  or  her  to  be
  living  and that he or she believes you to be dead, and that pursuant to
  an order of said court, entered the ......day of ......... , 19..... , a
  hearing will be had upon  said  petition  at  the  said  supreme  court,
  ...........term  part...........,  in  the  ...............county  court
  house, in the.......... state of New York, on the.................   day
  of  .............  , 19... , at ........ o'clock in the .........  noon.
  Dated............; " and if the court, after the filing of proof of  the
  proper  publication  of said notice and after a hearing and proof taken,
  is satisfied of the truth  of  all  the  allegations  contained  in  the
  petition, it may make a final order dissolving such marriage.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 230 - Required Residence of Parties.

§  230.  Required residence of parties. An action to annul a marriage,
  or to declare the  nullity  of  a  void  marriage,  or  for  divorce  or
  separation may be maintained only when:
1.  The  parties  were  married  in  the  state  and either party is a
  resident thereof when the action is commenced and has  been  a  resident
  for a continuous period of one year immediately preceding, or
2.  The  parties  have  resided  in this state as husband and wife and
  either party is a resident thereof when the action is commenced and  has
  been  a  resident  for  a  continuous  period  of  one  year immediately
  preceding, or
3. The cause occurred in  the  state  and  either  party  has  been  a
  resident   thereof  for  a  continuous  period  of  at  least  one  year
  immediately preceding the commencement of the action, or
4. The cause occurred in the state  and  both  parties  are  residents
  thereof at the time of the commencement of the action, or
5.  Either  party  has  been  a resident of the state for a continuous
  period of at least two years immediately preceding the  commencement  of
  the action.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 231 - Residence of Married Persons.

§ 231. Residence of married persons. If a married person dwells within
  the  state  when he or she commences an action against his or her spouse
  for divorce, annulment or separation, such person is deemed  a  resident
  thereof, although his or her spouse resides elsewhere.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 232 - Notice of Nature of Matrimonial Action; Proof of Service.

§ 232. Notice of nature of matrimonial action; proof of service. a. In
  an  action  to annul a marriage or for divorce or for separation, if the
  complaint is not personally served with the summons, the  summons  shall
  have  legibly written or printed upon the face thereof: "Action to annul
  a marriage", "Action to declare the nullity of a void marriage", "Action
  for a divorce", or "Action for a separation", as the case  may  be,  and
  shall  specify  the  nature of any ancillary relief demanded. A judgment
  shall not be rendered in favor of the  plaintiff  upon  the  defendant's
  default  in  appearing  or pleading, unless either (1) the summons and a
  copy of the complaint were personally delivered to the defendant; or (2)
  the copy of the summons (a) personally delivered to  the  defendant,  or
  (b) served on the defendant pursuant to an order directing the method of
  service  of  the  summons  in  accordance with the provisions of section
  three hundred eight or three hundred fifteen of the civil  practice  law
  and rules, shall contain such notice.
b.   An   affidavit   or   certificate  proving  service  shall  state
  affirmatively in the body thereof that the required notice  was  written
  or  printed  on  the  face  of  the copy of the summons delivered to the
  defendant and what knowledge the affiant or  officer  who  executed  the
  certificate had that he was the defendant named and how he acquired such
  knowledge. The court may require the affiant or officer who executed the
  affidavit  or  certificate to appear in court and be examined in respect
  thereto.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 233 - Sequestration of Defendant's Property in Action for Divorce, Separation or Annulment Where Defendant Cannot Be Personally Served.

§  233.  Sequestration  of defendant's property in action for divorce,
  separation or annulment where defendant  cannot  be  personally  served.
  Where  in an action for divorce, separation, annulment or declaration of
  nullity of a void marriage it appears to the court that the defendant is
  not within the state, or cannot  be  found  therein,  or  is  concealing
  himself  or herself therein, so that process cannot be personally served
  upon the defendant, the court may at any time and from time to time make
  any order or orders without notice directing the sequestration of his or
  her property, both real and personal and whether tangible or intangible,
  within the state, and may appoint a receiver thereof, or  by  injunction
  or otherwise take the same into its possession and control. The property
  thus  sequestered and the income therefrom may be applied in whole or in
  part and from time to time, under the direction  of  the  court  and  as
  justice may require, to the payment of such sum or sums as the court may
  deem  it  proper  to award, by order or judgment as the case may be, and
  during the pendency of the action or at the termination thereof, for the
  education or maintenance of any of the children of a  marriage,  or  for
  the  support  of  a  spouse,  or for his or her expenses in bringing and
  carrying on said  action  and  the  proceedings  incidental  thereto  or
  connected  therewith;  and  if the rents and profits of the real estate,
  together with the other property so sequestered, be insufficient to  pay
  the sums of money required, the court, upon such terms and conditions as
  it  may prescribe, may direct the mortgage or sale of sufficient of said
  real estate to pay such sums. The court may appoint the plaintiff spouse
  receiver or sequestrator in such cases. The  court  may  authorize  such
  spouse  to  use  and  occupy,  free of any liability for rent or use and
  occupation or otherwise, any house or other  suitable  property  of  the
  defendant  spouse  as  a dwelling for himself or herself with or without
  the children of  the  marriage,  and  may  likewise  turn  over  to  the
  plaintiff spouse for the use of such spouse with or without the children
  of  the  marriage  any  chattel or chattels of the defendant spouse. The
  relief herein provided for is in addition to any and every other  remedy
  to which a spouse may be entitled under the law.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 234 - Title to or Occupancy and Possession of Property.

§ 234. Title to or occupancy and possession of property. In any action
  for  divorce,  for  a  separation,  for  an  annulment or to declare the
  nullity of a void marriage, the court may (1) determine any question  as
  to  the title to property arising between the parties, and (2) make such
  direction, between the parties, concerning the possession  of  property,
  as  in  the  court's  discretion  justice  requires having regard to the
  circumstances of the case and of the respective parties. Such  direction
  may be made in the final judgment, or by one or more orders from time to
  time  before  or  subsequent to final judgment, or by both such order or
  orders and final judgment. Where the title to real property is affected,
  a copy of such judgment, order or decree, duly certified by the clerk of
  the court wherein said judgement was rendered, shall be recorded in  the
  office  of the recording officer of the county in which such property is
  situated, as provided by section two hundred ninety-seven-b of the  real
  property law.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 235 - Information as to Details of Matrimonial Actions or Proceedings.

§   235.   Information   as  to  details  of  matrimonial  actions  or
  proceedings. 1. An officer of the court with whom the proceedings  in  a
  matrimonial  action or a written agreement of separation or an action or
  proceeding for custody, visitation or maintenance of a child are  filed,
  or  before  whom  the testimony is taken, or his clerk, either before or
  after the termination of the suit, shall not permit a copy of any of the
  pleadings, affidavits, findings of fact, conclusions of law, judgment of
  dissolution, written agreement of separation or memorandum  thereof,  or
  testimony,  or  any  examination  or perusal thereof, to be taken by any
  other person than a party, or the attorney or counsel of a party, except
  by order of the court.
2. If the evidence on the trial of such an  action  or  proceeding  be
  such that public interest requires that the examination of the witnesses
  should  not be public, the court or referee may exclude all persons from
  the room except the parties to the action and their counsel, and in such
  case may order the evidence, when filed with the clerk, sealed up, to be
  exhibited only to the parties to the action  or  proceeding  or  someone
  interested, on order of the court.
3.  Upon  the  application  of any person to the county clerk or other
  officer in charge of public records within a county for evidence of  the
  disposition, judgment or order with respect to a matrimonial action, the
  clerk  or other such officer shall issue a "certificate of disposition",
  duly certifying the nature and effect of such disposition,  judgment  or
  order  and  shall  in  no  manner  evidence  the  subject  matter of the
  pleadings, testimony, findings of fact, conclusions of law  or  judgment
  of dissolution derived in any such action.
4. Any county, city, town or village clerk or other municipal official
  issuing  marriage  licenses  shall be required to accept, as evidence of
  dissolution of marriage, such "certificate of disposition" in lieu of  a
  complete  copy  of the findings of fact, conclusions of law and judgment
  of dissolution.
5. The limitations of subdivisions one, two and three of this  section
  in  relation  to  confidentiality shall cease to apply one hundred years
  after date of filing, and such records shall thereupon be public records
  available to public inspection.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 238 - Expenses in Enforcement and Modification Proceedings.

§  238.  Expenses  in enforcement and modification proceedings. In any
  action or proceeding to enforce or modify any provision of a judgment or
  order  entered  in  an  action  for  divorce,   separation,   annulment,
  declaration  of  nullity  of a void marriage, declaration of validity or
  nullity of a judgement of divorce rendered against a spouse who was  the
  defendant in any action outside the state of New York and did not appear
  therein  where such spouse asserts the nullity of such foreign judgment,
  or an injunction restraining the prosecution in any  other  jurisdiction
  of an action for a divorce, or in any proceeding pursuant to section two
  hundred  forty-three, two hundred forty-four, two hundred forty-five, or
  two hundred forty-six of this article, the court may in  its  discretion
  require  either  party  to  pay  counsel  fees  and fees and expenses of
  experts directly to the attorney of the other party to enable the  other
  party  to carry on or defend the action or proceeding as, in the court's
  discretion, justice requires having regard to the circumstances  of  the
  case  and  of  the  respective  parties.  There  shall  be  a rebuttable
  presumption that counsel fees  shall  be  awarded  to  the  less  monied
  spouse.  In  any  such  action  or proceeding, applications for fees and
  expenses may be maintained by the attorney for the respective parties in
  counsel's own name and  in  counsel's  own  behalf.  In  exercising  the
  court's discretion, the court shall seek to assure that each party shall
  be  adequately  represented  and  that where fees and expenses are to be
  awarded, they shall be awarded on a timely basis, pendente lite,  so  as
  to   enable   adequate  representation  from  the  commencement  of  the
  proceeding. Applications for the award of fees and expenses may be  made
  at any time or times prior to final judgment. Both parties to the action
  or   proceeding  and  their  representative  attorneys,  shall  file  an
  affidavit with the court detailing the financial agreement  between  the
  party  and  the attorney. Such affidavit shall include the amount of any
  retainer, the amounts paid and still owing thereunder, the hourly amount
  charged by the attorney, the amounts paid, or to be paid,  any  experts,
  and  any  additional  costs,  disbursements  or expenses. Payment of any
  retainer fees to the  attorney  for  the  petitioning  party  shall  not
  preclude  any  awards  of  fees and expenses to an applicant which would
  otherwise be allowed under this section.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 239 - Stay in Divorce or Separation Action on Default of Payment.

§  239. Stay in divorce or separation action on default of payment. In
  an action for divorce or separation the court or the judge  thereof  may
  refuse  to grant an order to stay proceedings, where the only default is
  the failure of a spouse to pay alimony, maintenance or counsel fees  due
  to  his  or  her  inability  to  make such payments. In no event shall a
  spouse who has been imprisoned for contempt of court for failure to  pay
  alimony,  maintenance or counsel fees or by virtue of an order of arrest
  as a provisional remedy under the civil practice law and rules be stayed
  from proceeding with the prosecution or defense of an action  where  the
  only  default  is the failure of such spouse to pay alimony, maintenance
  or counsel fees.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 240-A - Judgment or Decree; Additional Provision.

§  240-a.  Judgment or decree; additional provision.  In any action or
  proceeding brought under the provisions of this chapter wherein  all  or
  part  of  the  relief  granted is divorce or annulment of a marriage any
  interlocutory or final judgment or  decree  shall  contain,  as  a  part
  thereof,  the social security numbers of the named parties in the action
  or proceeding, as well as a provision that each party may resume the use
  of his or her premarriage surname or any other former surname.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 240-B - Order of Support by Parent.

§  240-b. Order of support by parent. When the court makes an order of
  support pursuant to section two hundred forty of this article, and where
  permitted under federal law and where  the  record  of  the  proceedings
  contains  such  information, the court shall require the social security
  number of such parent to be affixed to such  order;  provided,  however,
  that  no  such  order  shall  be invalid because of the omission of such
  number. Where the record of the proceedings contains  such  information,
  such  order  shall  also include on its face the name and address of the
  employer, if any,  of  the  person  chargeable  with  support  provided,
  however,  that  failure  to  comply  with  this  requirement  shall  not
  invalidate such order. Where the order  of  child  support  or  combined
  child  and  spouse  support  is  made on behalf of persons in receipt of
  public assistance or in receipt of  services  pursuant  to  section  one
  hundred  eleven-g  of  the  social services law, the court shall require
  each party to  provide,  and  update  upon  any  change,  the  following
  information  to  the  court  by  reporting  such  change  to the support
  collection unit designated by the appropriate social services  district:
  social  security  number,  residential  and mailing addresses, telephone
  number, driver's license number; and name, address and telephone  number
  of  the  parties'  employers.    Due process requirements for notice and
  service of process for subsequent hearings are met, with respect to such
  party, upon sending written notice by  first  class  mail  to  the  most
  recent  residential  address on record with the support collection unit;
  or by sending by first class mail written  notice  to  the  most  recent
  employer  address  on record with the support collection unit, if a true
  copy thereof also is sent  by  first  class  mail  to  the  most  recent
  residential address on record with the support collection unit. Any such
  order  issued  on  or  after  the first day of October, nineteen hundred
  ninety-nine shall also include, where  available,  the  social  security
  number of each child on whose behalf support has been ordered.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 241 - Interference With or Withholding of Visitation Rights; Alimony or Maintenance Suspension.

§  241. Interference with or withholding of visitation rights; alimony
  or maintenance suspension. When it appears to the  satisfaction  of  the
  court  that a custodial parent receiving alimony or maintenance pursuant
  to an order, judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction has
  wrongfully interfered with or withheld  visitation  rights  provided  by
  such  order,  judgment  or  decree,  the  court,  in its discretion, may
  suspend such payments or cancel any arrears that may have accrued during
  the time that visitation rights have been or are being  interfered  with
  or  withheld.  Nothing in this section shall constitute a defense in any
  court to an application to enforce payment of child support  or  grounds
  for the cancellation of arrears for child support.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 243 - Security for Payments by Defendant in Action for Divorce, Separation or Annulment; Sequestration.

§  243.  Security  for  payments  by  defendant in action for divorce,
  separation or annulment; sequestration. Where a judgment rendered or  an
  order  made  in  an  action  in  this  state  for divorce, separation or
  annulment, or for a declaration of nullity of  a  void  marriage,  or  a
  judgment  rendered  in another state for divorce upon any of the grounds
  provided in  section  one  hundred  seventy  of  this  chapter,  or  for
  separation  or  separate  support  and maintenance for any of the causes
  specified in section two hundred, or  for  relief,  however  designated,
  granted  upon grounds which in this state would be grounds for annulment
  of marriage or for a declaration of nullity of  a  void  marriage,  upon
  which  an  action  has  been brought in this state and judgment rendered
  therein, requires a spouse to provide for the education  or  maintenance
  of  any  of the children of a marriage, or for the support of his or her
  spouse, the court, in its discretion, also may direct  the  spouse  from
  whom  maintenance  or  support is sought to give reasonable security, in
  such a manner and within such a  time  as  it  thinks  proper,  for  the
  payment,  from  time  to  time,  of  the sums of money required for that
  purpose. If he or she fails to give the security, or to make any payment
  required by the terms of such  a  judgment  or  order,  whether  or  not
  security  has  been  given  therefor, or to pay any sum of money for the
  support and maintenance of the children or the support  and  maintenance
  of the spouse during the pendency of the action, or for counsel fees and
  expenses  which he or she is required to pay by a judgment or order, the
  court may cause his or her personal property and the rents  and  profits
  of  his  or  her  real  property  to  be  sequestered, and may appoint a
  receiver  thereof.  The  rents  and  profits  and  other   property   so
  sequestered  may  be  applied, from time to time, under the direction of
  the court, to the payment of any of the sums of money specified in  this
  section,  as  justice requires; and if the same shall be insufficient to
  pay the sums of  money  required,  the  court,  on  application  of  the
  receiver,  may  direct the mortgage or sale of such real property by the
  receiver,  under  such  terms  and  conditions  as  it  may   prescribe,
  sufficient to pay such sums.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 244 - Enforcement by Execution of Judgment or Order in Action for Divorce, Separation or Annulment.

§  244.  Enforcement  by  execution of judgment or order in action for
  divorce, separation or annulment.  Where  a  spouse  in  an  action  for
  divorce,  separation  or  annulment, or declaration of nullity of a void
  marriage, or a person  other  than  a  spouse  when  an  action  for  an
  annulment  is maintained after the death of a spouse, defaults in paying
  any sum of money as required by the  judgment  or  order  directing  the
  payment  thereof,  or  as  required  by  the  terms  of  an agreement or
  stipulation incorporated by reference  in  a  judgment,  such  direction
  shall  be enforceable pursuant to section fifty-two hundred forty-one or
  fifty-two hundred forty-two of the civil practice law  and  rules.  Upon
  application  the  court  shall  make  an  order  directing  the entry of
  judgment for the amount of arrears of child support together with  costs
  and  disbursements. The court shall make an order directing the entry of
  judgment for the amount of arrears of any other  payments  so  directed,
  together with costs and disbursements, unless the defaulting party shows
  good  cause for failure to make application for relief from the judgment
  or order directing such payment prior to the accrual  of  such  arrears.
  The  court shall not make an order reducing or cancelling arrears unless
  the facts and circumstances constituting good cause are set forth  in  a
  written  memorandum of decision. The application for such order shall be
  upon such notice to the spouse or other person as the court may  direct.
  Such  judgment  may  be  enforced  by  execution  or in any other manner
  provided by law for the collection of money judgments. The relief herein
  provided for is in addition to any and every other  remedy  to  which  a
  spouse  may be entitled under the law; provided that when a judgment for
  such arrears or any part thereof shall have  been  entered  pursuant  to
  this   section,  such  judgment  shall  thereafter  not  be  subject  to
  modification under the discretionary power granted by this section;  and
  after  the  entry  of  such  judgment  the  judgment  creditor shall not
  hereafter be entitled to collect by  any  form  of  remedy  any  greater
  portion  of  such  arrears  than  that  represented  by  the judgment so
  entered. Such judgment shall provide for the payment of interest on  the
  amount  of any arrears if the default was willful, in that the obligated
  spouse knowingly, consciously and voluntarily disregarded the obligation
  under a lawful court order. Such interest shall  be  computed  from  the
  date on which the payment was due, at the prevailing rate of interest on
  judgments as provided in the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 244-A - Enforcement of Arrears Which Accrue During Pendency of an Enforcement Proceeding.

§  244-a.  Enforcement  of  arrears which accrue during pendency of an
  enforcement proceeding.  In any proceeding for enforcement of payment of
  any sum of money as required by judgment  or  order  the  party  seeking
  enforcement  may  amend  the  papers  in  support of the application for
  enforcement to include any additional arrears which have  accrued  since
  the commencement of such enforcement proceeding at the time of a hearing
  upon  or  submission  of the matter, provided that written notice of the
  intention to so amend has been given eight days previously.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 244-D - Child Support Proceedings and Enforcement of Arrears; Suspension of Recreational License.

§  244-d.  Child  support  proceedings  and  enforcement  of  arrears;
suspension  of  recreational  license.
(a)  In  any  proceeding   for
enforcement  of a direction or agreement, incorporated in a judgement or
order, to pay any sum of money as child support or  combined  child  and
spousal  support,  if the court is satisfied by competent proof that the
respondent has accumulated support arrears equivalent to or greater than
the amount of support due pursuant to  such  judgment  or  order  for  a
period  of  four  months, the court may order any agency responsible for
the issuance of a recreational license to suspend or refuse to reissue a
license to the respondent, or deny application for such license  by  the
respondent.  For  purposes  of  determining  whether  a  respondent  has
accumulated support arrears equivalent to or greater than the amount  of
support  due  for a period of four months, the amount of any retroactive
support, other than periodic payments of retroactive support  which  are
past  due,  shall  not be included in the calculation of support arrears
pursuant to this section.
(b) If the respondent, after receiving appropriate  notice,  fails  to
comply  with  a summons, subpoena, or warrant relating to a paternity or
child support proceeding, the court may order any agency responsible for
the issuance of a recreational  license  to  suspend  or  to  refuse  to
reissue  a  license  to  the  respondent or to deny application for such
license by the respondent. The court may subsequently order such  agency
to  terminate  the  adverse  action  regarding the respondent's license;
however, the court shall order the termination  of  such  suspension  or
other adverse action when the court is satisfied that the respondent has
fully  complied  with  the  requirements  of all summons, subpoenas, and
warrants relating to a paternity or child support proceeding.
(c) The provisions of subdivision (a) of this section shall not  apply
to:
(i)  respondents  who  are receiving public assistance or supplemental
security income; or
(ii) respondents whose income  as  defined  by  subparagraph  five  of
paragraph  (b)  of subdivision one-b of section two hundred forty of the
domestic relations law falls below the self-support reserve  as  defined
by subparagraph six of paragraph (b) of subdivision one-b of section two
hundred forty of this article; or
(iii)  respondents  whose  income  as  defined by subparagraph five of
paragraph (b) of subdivision one-b of section two hundred forty of  this
article  remaining  after  the payment of the current support obligation
would fall below the self-support reserve as defined by subparagraph six
of paragraph (b) of subdivision one-b of section two  hundred  forty  of
this article.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 245 - Enforcement by Contempt Proceedings of Judgment or Order in Action for Divorce, Separation or Annulment.

§  245.  Enforcement  by  contempt proceedings of judgment or order in
  action for divorce, separation or  annulment.  Where  a  spouse,  in  an
  action for divorce, separation, annulment or declaration of nullity of a
  void  marriage,  or  for the enforcement in this state of a judgment for
  divorce, separation, annulment or  declaration  of  nullity  of  a  void
  marriage  rendered  in another state, makes default in paying any sum of
  money as required  by  the  judgment  or  order  directing  the  payment
  thereof,  the  aggrieved  spouse  may  make  application pursuant to the
  provisions of section seven hundred fifty-six of the  judiciary  law  to
  punish  the  defaulting  spouse  for contempt, and where the judgment or
  order directs the payment to be  made  in  installments,  or  at  stated
  intervals,  failure  to  make  such single payment or installment may be
  punished as therein provided, and such punishment,  either  by  fine  or
  commitment,  shall not be a bar to a subsequent proceeding to punish the
  defaulting spouse as for  a  contempt  for  failure  to  pay  subsequent
  installments,  but for such purpose such spouse may be proceeded against
  under the said order in the same manner and  with  the  same  effect  as
  though  such  installment  payment was directed to be paid by a separate
  and distinct order, and the provisions  of  the  civil  rights  law  are
  hereby  superseded  so  far  as  they  are  in  conflict therewith. Such
  application may also be  made  without  any  previous  sequestration  or
  direction  to  give  security  or any application for enforcement by any
  other means. No demand of any kind upon the defaulting spouse  shall  be
  necessary  in order that he or she be proceeded against and punished for
  failure to make any  such  payment  or  to  pay  any  such  installment;
  personal  service  upon  the defaulting spouse of an uncertified copy of
  the judgment or order under which the  default  has  occurred  shall  be
  sufficient.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 247 - Alimony or Maintenance Payments Suspended During Confinement in Prison.

§ 247. Alimony or maintenance payments suspended during confinement in
  prison.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article, the
  provision of any judgment or order rendered or made  in  an  action  for
  divorce,  separation,  annulment  or  declaration  of  nullity of a void
  marriage, requiring the payment of moneys by one spouse for the  support
  of the other shall be suspended and inoperative so far as punishment for
  contempt  is  concerned during the period in which the defaulting spouse
  shall be imprisoned pursuant to  any  order  adjudging  him  or  her  in
  contempt for failure to comply with any provision in such order.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 248 - Modification of Judgment or Order in Action for Divorce or Annulment.

§  248.  Modification  of  judgment  or order in action for divorce or
  annulment. Where an action  for  divorce  or  for  annulment  or  for  a
  declaration  of  the  nullity of a void marriage is brought by a spouse,
  and a final judgment of  divorce  or  a  final  judgment  annulling  the
  marriage or declaring its nullity has been rendered, the court, by order
  upon  the  application  of  the  payor  on  notice,  and on proof of the
  marriage of the payee after such final judgment, must modify such  final
  judgment  and  any  orders  made  with  respect thereto by annulling the
  provisions of such final judgment  or  orders,  or  of  both,  directing
  payments  of  money  for  the  support  of  the  payee. The court in its
  discretion upon application of the payor on notice, upon proof that  the
  payee  is  habitually  living with another person and holding himself or
  herself out as the spouse of such other person, although not married  to
  such  other  person,  may modify such final judgment and any orders made
  with respect thereto by annulling the provisions of such final  judgment
  or orders or of both, directing payment of money for the support of such
  payee.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 249 - Trial Preferences in Matrimonial Actions.

§ 249. Trial preferences in matrimonial actions. Upon motion of either
  party  or  upon  its own motion, the court may direct that any action or
  proceeding brought (1) to annul a marriage or to declare the nullity  of
  a  void  marriage, or (2) for a separation, or (3) for a divorce, or (4)
  to enjoin the prosecution in any other jurisdiction  of  an  action  for
  divorce,  be placed forthwith by the clerk on the supreme court calendar
  and be entitled to preference in the trial thereof, in  accordance  with
  Rule  3403  of  the  civil  practice law and rules, provided that in the
  courts' discretion, justice so requires. Such direction may be  made  by
  separate  order or in any order granted in any such action or proceeding
  upon any application made pursuant to sections two  hundred  thirty-six,
  two hundred thirty-seven or two hundred forty of this article.
Such  direction,  in  the  event  no note of issue has been previously
  filed with the clerk, may also require either party  to  file  with  the
  clerk  proof  of service of the summons, two copies of the note of issue
  and such other data as may be required.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 250 - Agreements Relating to Marriage; Statute of Limitations.

§ 250. Agreements relating to marriage; statute of limitations. 1. The
  statute  of  limitations  for  commencing an action or proceeding or for
  claiming a defense that  arises  from  an  agreement  made  pursuant  to
  subdivision  three  of  part B of section two hundred thirty-six of this
  article entered into (a) prior to a marriage or (b) during the marriage,
  but prior  to  the  service  of  process  in  a  matrimonial  action  or
  proceeding, shall be three years.
2.  The  statute  of limitations shall be tolled until (a) process has
  been served in such matrimonial action or proceeding, or (b)  the  death
  of one of the parties.
3.  The  provisions  of  this  section shall not apply to a separation
  agreement or an agreement made during  the  pendency  of  a  matrimonial
  action or in settlement thereof.
2023 New York Laws › DOM - Domestic Relations › Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action › 251 - Filing of Order in Family Court.

§ 251. Filing of order in family court. When, in a matrimonial action,
  the supreme court refers the issues of support, custody or visitation to
  the  family  court,  the  order  or  judgment  shall provide that a copy
  thereof shall be filed by the plaintiff's  attorney,  within  ten  days,
  with the clerk of the family court therein specified.