Opinion
November 14, 1988
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Friedenberg, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The defendant's claim that our previous upward modification of the plaintiff's pendente lite maintenance and child support awards (see, Gastineau v. Gastineau, 127 A.D.2d 629) was not retroactive to the date of the plaintiff's original application therefor is without merit. The initial order awarded temporary maintenance and child support retroactively. Our modification of that order applied only to the amounts awarded and expressly affirmed the remaining portions of the order, including the provision regarding retroactivity. Accordingly, the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, did not err in awarding to the plaintiff the sum of $10,600, said sum representing the increased temporary maintenance and child support arrears. Spatt, J.P., Sullivan, Harwood and Balletta, JJ., concur.