
    Diana A. Huth, Appellant, v Kenneth J. Huth, Respondent.
    [772 NYS2d 536]
   In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment dated July 15, 1997, the former wife appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Sacks, J.H.O.), dated December 18, 2002, which, after a hearing, granted the former husband’s motion for a downward modification of his maintenance obligation.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court properly granted the former husband’s motion for a downward modification of his maintenance obligation. Ritter, J.P., Santucci, Adams and Crane, JJ., concur.  