N.Y. Dom. Rel. Law § 245

§ 245. Enforcement by contempt proceedings of judgment or order in\naction for divorce, separation or annulment. Where a spouse, in an\naction for divorce, separation, annulment or declaration of nullity of a\nvoid marriage, or for the enforcement in this state of a judgment for\ndivorce, separation, annulment or declaration of nullity of a void\nmarriage rendered in another state, makes default in paying any sum of\nmoney as required by the judgment or order directing the payment\nthereof, and it appears presumptively, to the satisfaction of the court,\nthat payment cannot be enforced pursuant to section two hundred\nforty-three or two hundred forty-four of this chapter or section\nfifty-two hundred forty-one or fifty-two hundred forty-two of the civil\npractice law and rules, the aggrieved spouse may make application\npursuant to the provisions of section seven hundred fifty-six of the\njudiciary law to punish the defaulting spouse for contempt, and where\nthe judgment or order directs the payment to be made in installments, or\nat stated intervals, failure to make such single payment or installment\nmay be punished as therein provided, and such punishment, either by fine\nor commitment, shall not be a bar to a subsequent proceeding to punish\nthe defaulting spouse as for a contempt for failure to pay subsequent\ninstallments, but for such purpose such spouse may be proceeded against\nunder the said order in the same manner and with the same effect as\nthough such installment payment was directed to be paid by a separate\nand distinct order, and the provisions of the civil rights law are\nhereby superseded so far as they are in conflict therewith. Such\napplication may also be made without any previous sequestration or\ndirection to give security where the court is satisfied that they would\nbe ineffectual. No demand of any kind upon the defaulting spouse shall\nbe necessary in order that he or she be proceeded against and punished\nfor failure to make any such payment or to pay any such installment;\npersonal service upon the defaulting spouse of an uncertified copy of\nthe judgment or order under which the default has occurred shall be\nsufficient.\n