In re the Estate of May

Wingate, S.

The extent of the personal obligation of a mother for the support of a minor or incompetent child does not appear to have been authoritatively defined in this State. The dictum *641in. Matter of Zounek (143 Misc. 827, 828), which is capable of the construction that this is equally the duty of both parents, if given this connotation, is clearly not the law, since it has many times been determined that a mother is entitled to reimbursement from the personal estate of her child for expenditures for necessaries made on its behalf. (See e. g., Matter of Friedlander, 189 App. Div. 90, 95;…