Opinion
December 22, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Erie County, Wolf, Jr., J.
Present — Green, J.P., Lawton, Fallon, Doerr and Balio, JJ.
Order unanimously affirmed with costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied defendant's cross motion to reduce the maintenance and life insurance obligations set forth in the judgment of divorce. Defendant failed to meet his burden of establishing a substantial change in circumstances warranting a downward modification of those obligations (see, Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [9] [b]; Klapper v. Klapper, 204 A.D.2d 518, 519). Further, in denying the cross motion, the court properly declined to consider evidence of plaintiff's financial circumstances (see, Matter of Derrick v. Derrick, 162 A.D.2d 348, lv denied 76 N.Y.2d 708).