Dobrzeniecki v. Dobrzeniecki

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Mary Garbowska Dobrzeniecki has appealed from an order modifying a divorce decree of 1949. The issues are twofold: First, it is insisted that changed circumstances justify an increase of the allowance of $35 per week made for maintenance of the couple’s twins — a boy and a girl eight years of age when the separation occurred. They are now almost thirteen.

The Dobrzenieckis were married in 1940 and separated in 1946. At that time they were living in Brooklyn, New York, where the mother and children have remained. Approximately eight months after the separation…