Schneider v. Schneider

Van Winkle, A. M.(1) The husband sued the wife for a divorce on the ground of desertion alleged to have begun in March, 1944, whereupon the wife counter-claimed for separate maintenance. The parties were married on April 21th, 1943. The husband is about forty-four years old and the wife is about eight years younger. The wife has a child now ten years old by a former husband who lived with the parties during the time that they lived together.

*181The child of a wife by a former husband is not within the purview of our separate maintenance statute (R. S. 2:50—39) which provides Cor the separate…