SICHER, J.
H. Catenaccio for petitioner. Victor Romano for respondent. SICHER, J. There is presented a novel phase of the recurrent problem of the relations between Supreme Court matrimonial actions and Family Court support proceedings — still another illustration of New York City's need for a single, comprehensive Domestic Relations Court, truly answering that name, of general "Mooney" v. "Mooney", 187 Misc. 789; Helman v. Helman, 190 Misc. 991; "Kaplan" v. "Kaplan", 197 Misc. 687 [LORENCE, J.], and "Fitzgerald" v. "Fitzgerald", 65 N. Y. S. 2d 285, 286 [DELANY, J.]); even in a habeas corpus child custody proceeding the Supreme Court lacks power to order support. (See People ex rel. MacAlpine v. MacAlpine, 50 N. Y. S. 2d 232, and cases therein cited, affd. 267 App. Div. 952, and People ex rel. Geismar v. Geismar, 184 Misc. 897, 911.) The Supreme Court could, and properly did, order support pendente lite in respondent's annulment action (Civ. Prac. Act, § 1169), and it could have included a provision for the wife's support in the final judgment if that had granted, and not denied, to the husband an annulment or had sustained the wife's counterclaim for a judgment of separation. But as the husband's annulment complaint was dismissed and the wife's counterclaim withdrawn, and the absence of issue of the marriage makes inapplicable the provisions of section 1170-a of the Civil Practice Act for child custody and maintenance upon dismissal of a separation action complaint, said $22.50 per week provision for the wife's support is wholly without subject-matter jurisdiction and is therefore nugatory. (2) Since there is no common-law obligation for the support of a stepchild (Matter of Ackerman, 116 N.Y. 654; Montayre v. Montayre, 175 Misc. 202), the Supreme Court judgment makes, and could make, no provision for respondent's stepchild, whereas the Family Court order includes support for that stepchild as a statutory obligation created by subdivision 5 of section 92 and subdivision (5) of section 101 of the Domestic Relations Court Act of the City of New York. For the foregoing reasons it is hereby held that the Family Court has not been ousted of jurisdiction. This opinion is an amplification of the decision to the same effect orally rendered at the close of a June 27, 1950, hearing. Upon the evidence presented at that hearing the order of this court was then modified (temporarily) to $16 a week, beginning June 30, 1950; the arrears fixed, on consent, at $175 and held in abeyance; there was ordered a physical examination of both parties; and the matter adjourned to August 15, 1950, for a review by me of the then factual situation. Notice shall be given to the parties pursuant to the subjoined direction. [*] The opinion as filed sets forth the true names of all parties but as here published substitutes fictitious names and disguises certain other details, in consonance with the spirit of section 52 of the Domestic Relations Court Act of the City of New York (L. 1933, ch. 482).