2022 New York Laws
DOM - Domestic Relations
Article 13 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Type of Matrimonial Action
245 - Enforcement by Contempt Proceedings of Judgment or Order in Action for Divorce, Separation or Annulment.

§  245.  Enforcement  by  contempt proceedings of judgment or order in
  action for divorce, separation or  annulment.  Where  a  spouse,  in  an
  action for divorce, separation, annulment or declaration of nullity of a
  void  marriage,  or  for the enforcement in this state of a judgment for
  divorce, separation, annulment or  declaration  of  nullity  of  a  void
  marriage  rendered  in another state, makes default in paying any sum of
  money as required  by  the  judgment  or  order  directing  the  payment
  thereof,  the  aggrieved  spouse  may  make  application pursuant to the
  provisions of section seven hundred fifty-six of the  judiciary  law  to
  punish  the  defaulting  spouse  for contempt, and where the judgment or
  order directs the payment to be  made  in  installments,  or  at  stated
  intervals,  failure  to  make  such single payment or installment may be
  punished as therein provided, and such punishment,  either  by  fine  or
  commitment,  shall not be a bar to a subsequent proceeding to punish the
  defaulting spouse as for  a  contempt  for  failure  to  pay  subsequent
  installments,  but for such purpose such spouse may be proceeded against
  under the said order in the same manner and  with  the  same  effect  as
  though  such  installment  payment was directed to be paid by a separate
  and distinct order, and the provisions  of  the  civil  rights  law  are
  hereby  superseded  so  far  as  they  are  in  conflict therewith. Such
  application may also be  made  without  any  previous  sequestration  or
  direction  to  give  security  or any application for enforcement by any
  other means. No demand of any kind upon the defaulting spouse  shall  be
  necessary  in order that he or she be proceeded against and punished for
  failure to make any  such  payment  or  to  pay  any  such  installment;
  personal  service  upon  the defaulting spouse of an uncertified copy of
  the judgment or order under which the  default  has  occurred  shall  be
  sufficient.