Opinion
February 3, 1995
Appeal from the Ontario County Family Court, Harvey, J.
Present — Denman, P.J., Green, Fallon, Balio and Boehm, JJ.
Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Family Court properly denied the objections to the Hearing Examiner's order without inquiring further into respondent's ability to pay child support arrears that accrued during the period of respondent's incarceration. "[I]t is undisputed that [respondent's] current financial hardship is solely the result of his wrongful conduct culminating in a felony conviction and imprisonment" (Matter of Knights v. Knights, 71 N.Y.2d 865, 867). Thus, the court properly declined to reduce or annul the accrued arrears (see, Family Ct Act § 451).