Jeffreys v. Jeffreys

Helen Jeffreys is ¡suing her husband of 14 years for divorce based on .abandonment of this plaintiff and their nine children.

Living on public assistance and not possessing any income or resources “ to pay the costs, fees and expenses necessary to prosecute * * * the action ” (CPLR 1101) she applied for and obtained leave to prosecute as a poor person. Her counsel are acting without compensation under the Legal Services Program of the Office .of Economic Opportunity.1

Diligent efforts to ascertain the present whereabouts of her husband having proved fruitless, plaintiff applied for and *1046obtained…