Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1936

Costa v. Costa

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 27, 1936

247 A.D. 192; 286 N.Y.S. 585; 1936 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8217

Counsel

Isidore Miller of counsel [Samuel S. Allan with him on the brief; Weisman, Quinn, Allan & Spett, attorneys], for the appellant., Arthur Bainbridge Hoff, Jr., of counsel [Paxton Blair with him on the brief; Paul Windels, Corporation Counsel, attorney], for the respondent.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

In view of the testimony of the petitioner that she is regularly receiving ten dollars a week from the appellant and furthermore that her parents are willing that she shall five with them, it cannot be said that the petitioner “ is likely to become a public charge,” which constitutes the only basis for the exercise of jurisdiction by the Domestic Relations Court during the pendency in the Supreme Court of an action for a separation between the parties. (Dom. Rel. Ct. Act [Laws of 1933, chap. 482], § 137; Matter of Collins v. Collins, 245 App. Div. 612; Matter of Chandler v. Chandler, 241 id. 390.)

The order should be reversed and the petition dismissed.

Townley, Untermyer, Dore and Cohn, JJ., concur; Martin, P. J., concurs in result.

Order unanimously reversed and the petition dismissed.

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