Opinion
Nos. 3132, 3132A.
March 20, 2008.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan B. Lobis, J.), entered December 29, 2006, which, inter alia, granted plaintiffs motion to hold defendant in contempt of the amended judgment of divorce based on her failure to pay child support, and denied defendant's motion for a change in custody and a downward modification of her child support obligation, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Order, same court and Justice, entered August 30, 2007, which denied defendant's application for final decision-making authority over the education of the parties' child, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Tuan Cho, New York (Dean T. Cho of counsel), for appellant.
Adam Edelstein, New York, for respondent.
Before: Tom, J.P., Friedman, Nardelli, Catterson and Moskowitz, JJ.
As an initial matter, the order granting defendant poor person relief pertains only to the appeals taken from the orders entered December 29, 2006 and August 30, 2007. Since there is therefore no record properly before this Court with respect to the 16 additional orders from which defendant purports to appeal, the additional orders are not reviewable ( see Insilco Corp. v Star Servs., Inc. of Del., 2 AD3d 343, 344; DiPasquale v Security Mut. Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 293 AD2d 394, 395).
In any event, defendant's claims are without merit. Her allegations concerning plaintiffs mental status and medical and educational neglect of the parties' child are without basis in the record. We reject the argument that plaintiff neglected the child's educational needs by keeping her enrolled at a public school on Staten Island that was described as a "failing school" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. It was reasonable for plaintiff to keep the child close to home while seeking to have her admitted to one of the three top-performing schools on Staten Island.
The court properly found that the increased disability payments that defendant alleges were received by plaintiff did not change the income imputed to him during the divorce proceedings.
We have considered defendant's remaining arguments and find them without merit.