White v. White
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William W. White, from an order of the Supreme Court, made' at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on the SHh day of July, 1912, amending a judgment of divorce and directing the husband to provide a sum of money weekly for the support and maintenance of a child of the marriage.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff sued the defendant for an absolute divorce, the action resulting in a judgment entered on the 31st day of January, 1905. The judgment, among other things, provided that “ the plaintiff have the care, custody and education of Le Eoy W. White, the child of said marriage,” making no provision for the maintenance of such child or of the plaintiff. This was, in effect, an adjudication that the defendant, as the father of the child, had so far sacrificed the rights of a parent as to be no longer entitled to the general right to support and maintain such child in his own…
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