Tamny v. Tamny

The parties were married in 1931, and they have a son born in 1941. The wife obtained a divorce in New York from her husband in 1951. The judgment pro*440vided that the wife shall have sole custody of the infant child, with the right of visitation in the defendant, “ at such time or from time to time as he shall choose”, “having in mind at all times the best interests of said child ”. The judgment also decreed that the husband pay the wife $18 weekly “ as and for her support and the support and maintenance of the issue of said marriage ”. In June, 1953, wife and son left for Florida, and have not…