" Posner " v. " Posner "

This proceeding has been instituted under amendments of Domestic Relations Court Act of the City of New York, in effect April 18, 1950, which then created the novel statutory amenability of a wife to a prospective order of this court to exonerate the community from the burden of her husband’s support (L. 1950, ch. 786).

That new legislation supplemented the previously created statutory obligation of a wife, if of sufficient ability, to reimburse the commissioner of welfare of the City of New York, or like officials elsewhere in the State, for past expenditures of public assistance funds for…