CENTRAL ISLIP – A child support order obtained in Family Court just weeks before a divorce trial was set to open in Supreme Court resulted from collusion and therefore should not help minimize a non-custodial father’s support payments to his children from a preceding marriage, ruled Supreme Court Justice Emily Pines.
Justice Pines, who presided over last month’s two-day divorce trial in Curran v. Curran, 00-6517, signed an April 2 post-trial decision resolving the father’s apparently conflicting obligations to the two children from his marriage and a subsequent child with a girlfriend. (The decision is published in today’s Law Journal.)
