Mandelstam v. Mandelstam

CULLEN, Commissioner.

In divorce proceedings between Marilyn H. Mandelstam and Paul Mandelstam the primary issue concerned the custody of their six-year-old daughter, Deborah. The chancellor found that it would be in the child’s best interests for neither parent to have custody and that custody be placed in a third party. Accordingly, in the judgment in the action (which granted the divorce to the wife), the custody of Deborah was awarded to the rabbi of a local Jewish temple and his wife, who had children with whom Deborah was friendly and who were well acquainted with the Mandelstams (who…