Opinion
Submitted September 22, 1999
November 1, 1999
Martin K. Lang, P.C., Garden City, N.Y., for appellant.
Pearlman Apat Futterman, LLP, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Martin M. Seinfeld of counsel), for respondent.
CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., THOMAS R. SULLIVAN, GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lonschein, J.), dated December 1, 1998, which denied his motion to vacate an amended judgment of the same court, dated December 21, 1994, entered upon his default in appearing at a hearing and following an inquest, inter alia, for arrears of child support.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
A party attempting to vacate a default judgment must establish both a reasonable excuse for the default and a meritorious defense (see, Roussodimou v. Zafiriadis, 238 A.D.2d 568 ; Putney v. Pearlman, 203 A.D.2d 333 ). The defendant failed to satisfy that standard in this case.
O'BRIEN, J.P., SULLIVAN, GOLDSTEIN, and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.