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—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marylin Diamond, J.), entered on or about August 17, 2000, which granted plaintiffs motion to confirm the Special Referee’s report, denied defendant’s motion for a downward modification of his child support obligations, directed that judgment be entered against defendant in the amount of $320,260.83 for child support arrears owing from August 1993 through April 2000, and granted plaintiffs motion to hold defendant in contempt, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The record shows that defendant’s attorney made appropriate efforts to gain defendant’s cooperation in preparation for the hearing before the Special Referee, and, on the eve of the hearing, sought to be relieved on the ground that defendant’s inaccessibility and uncooperativeness made it impossible for him to provide effective representation at the hearing. Thus, we reject defendant’s assertion that, inter alia, his attorney failed to inform him of the hearing, thereby depriving him of due process. Moreover, in the context of plaintiffs motion to confirm the Special Referee’s report, which was made after