Usack v. Usack

17 A.D.3d 736 (2005)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

M and F were married for 20 years and had three children. F got custody of the daughters. The court ordered M to pay child support and a portion of the uninsured medical expenses for all three children. The court denied M's request that she be relieved, permanently or temporarily, of her child support obligations. That request was based upon, among other grounds, F's near-complete frustration of any relationship, communication or contact between M and her children since December 2001, when F first learned of and told the children about M's relationship with another man. The court also concluded that F had 'encouraged' the children's 'unbridled enmity' toward and 'total exclusion' of M through 'a course of conduct calculated to inflict the most grievous emotional injury upon her.' M appeals, contending that her child support obligation should have been suspended due to F’s deliberate actions in alienating their children from her.