The escrow payment that the motion court directed from defendant as a condition to going forward with her application for an upward modification of child support was a proper exercise of discretion based on the court's "wariness" with "the accuracy and completeness of the statements contained in defendant's affidavits given her previous history of not being completely candid" (see, Abitbol v Abitbol,
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