"Delia Kirstein" v. "Martin Kirstein"

This proceeding was initiated on April 18, 1935, and has been the subject of numerous hearings, largely occasioned by respondent’s faint sense of his support obligations.

Collateral to such proceeding is also a neglected child proceeding in the Kings County Children’s Court Division which eventuated in an award of custody of the child (“ Sarah ”) to the mother on November 15, 1940, under court supervision and a termination of such supervision on March 18, 1941, upon a showing that “ Sarah ” was then happier and better adjusted than while living with both parents in the paternal grandparents’…