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MATTER OF COSTA v. COSTA

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.
Mar 27, 1936
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PER CURIAM.

In view of the testimony of the petitioner that she is regularly receiving ten dollars a week from the appellant and furthermore that her parents are willing that she shall live with them, it cannot be said that the petitioner "is likely to become a public charge," which constitutes the only basis for the exercise of jurisdiction by the Domestic Relations Court during the pendency in the Supreme Court of an action for a separation between the parties. (Dom. Rel. Ct. Act [Laws of 1933, chap. 482], ยง 137; Matter of Collins v. Collins, 245 App. Div. 612; Matter of Chandler v. Chandler, 241 id. 390.)

The order should be reversed and the petition dismissed.

TOWNLEY, UNTERMYER, DORE and COHN, JJ., concur; MARTIN, P.J., concurs in result.

Order unanimously reversed and the petition dismissed.