Thanks Janet. This could be. According to my mother, my grandmother was an alcoholic. I was just puzzled that the divorce papers say that my grandmother filed based on "cruelty". My mother's stories always painted her Dad as a very good man, while her mother would beat her. Thanks for you help. > From: truncali@warwick.net> To: nynewyor@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:34:47 -0400> Subject: Re: [NYNEWYOR] Divorce in the 1950s> > Hi,> I could be wrong, but if memory serves, I think that if adultery or > abandonment was found that the mother would not get custody.> Janet> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson" <cosette.58@hotmail.com>> To: <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com>; <nynassau@rootsweb.com>; > <nynewyor@rootsweb.com>; <nyqueens@rootsweb.com>; <nysuffol@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:08 AM> Subject: [NYNEWYOR] Divorce in the 1950s> > > > Can anyone comment on the divorce "rules" of the 1950s? I know NY had some > > very conservative ways of dealing with divorce issues.> >> > My grandparents were divorced in 1953 in FL. They were both from NY and > > lived in NY all their lives. In the divorce papers, my grandmother is > > listed as living in FL, grandfather in NY.> >> > What I find strange is the following: grandmother plaintiff, files divorce > > based on cruelty, grandfather, doesn't contest, but gets custody of a > > minor child. This seems odd to me that the father would get custody in the > > 50s, and especially if the reason for divorce was cruelty. Was "cruelty" > > one of the few reasons for divorce? Why would the mother not get custody?> >> > I know this is more a "history/law type of question, but it is pertinent > > to my genealogy studies and I thought one of you may have crossed this > > issue before.> > If anyone knows or can shed some light of divorce rules for the 50s, I'd > > appreciate it.> >> > Thanks,> >> > Liz> > _________________________________________________________________> > Making the world a better place one message at a time.> > http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace> > Jim Garrity, List Administrator> > jimgarrity@earthlink.net> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message> > > > > Jim Garrity, List Administrator> jimgarrity@earthlink.net> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch when you're away with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger2_072008
Hi, My pleasure. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson" <cosette.58@hotmail.com> To: <nynewyor@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:56 AM Subject: Re: [NYNEWYOR] Divorce in the 1950s > Thanks Janet. This could be. According to my mother, my grandmother was an > alcoholic. I was just puzzled that the divorce papers say that my > grandmother filed based on "cruelty". My mother's stories always painted > her Dad as a very good man, while her mother would beat her. > > Thanks for you help. > > > >> From: truncali@warwick.net> To: nynewyor@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul >> 2008 08:34:47 -0400> Subject: Re: [NYNEWYOR] Divorce in the 1950s> > Hi,> >> I could be wrong, but if memory serves, I think that if adultery or > >> abandonment was found that the mother would not get custody.> >> Janet> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson" >> <cosette.58@hotmail.com>> To: <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com>; >> <nynassau@rootsweb.com>; > <nynewyor@rootsweb.com>; >> <nyqueens@rootsweb.com>; <nysuffol@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, >> 2008 8:08 AM> Subject: [NYNEWYOR] Divorce in the 1950s> > > > Can anyone >> comment on the divorce "rules" of the 1950s? I know NY had some > > very >> conservative ways of dealing with divorce issues.> >> > My grandparents >> were divorced in 1953 in FL. They were both from NY and > > lived in NY >> all their lives. In the divorce papers, my grandmother is > > listed as >> living in FL, grandfather in NY.> >> > What I find strange is the >> following: grandmother pla! > intiff, files divorce > > based on cruelty, grandfather, doesn't contest, > but gets custody of a > > minor child. This seems odd to me that the > father would get custody in the > > 50s, and especially if the reason for > divorce was cruelty. Was "cruelty" > > one of the few reasons for divorce? > Why would the mother not get custody?> >> > I know this is more a > "history/law type of question, but it is pertinent > > to my genealogy > studies and I thought one of you may have crossed this > > issue before.> > > If anyone knows or can shed some light of divorce rules for the 50s, I'd > > > appreciate it.> >> > Thanks,> >> > Liz> > > _________________________________________________________________> > > Making the world a better place one message at a time.> > > http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace> > Jim > Garrity, List Administrator> > jimgarrity@earthlink.net> > > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please > send an email to > > NYNEWYOR-requ! > est@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in > the subject and the body of the message> > > > > Jim Garrity, List > Administrator> jimgarrity@earthlink.net> -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ > Stay in touch when you're away with Windows Live Messenger. > http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger2_072008 > Jim Garrity, List Administrator > jimgarrity@earthlink.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >