Mendelsohn v. Mendelsohn

In this proceeding, instituted nominally by a sixty-seven year old father, the real party in interest is the Department of Welfare of the City of New. York, seeking exoneration from the cost of maintaining respondents’ father, who has for several months been a “ public charge ” dependent on Old Age Assistance and since about March 1, 1948, an inmate of “ X ” Old Polks Home.

‘ \ Indigent parents of advanced years are ordinarily cared for within the family group. A ‘ poor relative ’ proceeding in this Court is almost always symptomatic of atypical conditions * * (Neuerstein v. Newburger, 53 N.…