O'Neill v. O'Neill

Proceeding to regulate the custody, education, support, etc., of an infant.

I. The major issue arises on the father’s request that the child be brought up in the Roman Catholic religion — specifically, that she either attend a Roman Catholic parochial school or attend a Roman Catholic institution on a released-time program.

Petitioner, the father, is a Roman Catholic. Respondent mother is Jewish.

The parties were married in New York in April, 1954, in a Roman Catholic Church ceremony. In connection with and as a prerequisite to that marriage, the parties executed the standard form written…