Opinion
May 11, 1987
Appeal from the Family Court, Putnam County (Scancarelli, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements, and without prejudice, if the petitioner be so advised, to the registration of the order of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, in accordance with the terms of Domestic Relations Law § 37-a, and to the commencement of a proceeding to enforce the registered order, and to collect pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 37-a any child support arrears which may have accrued under the order prior to registration.
Absent the registration of the foreign support order, the Family Court lacked the power to award the petitioner arrears under that order (see, Matter of Martin v. Martin, 127 A.D.2d 266). Since the petitioner failed to forward copies of the order to the Putnam County Attorney for registration, despite repeated requests that she do so, that branch of her petition which sought arrears under the foreign support order was properly dismissed. Mangano, J.P., Brown, Rubin and Eiber, JJ., concur.