Legal services rendered for a wife or child are necessaries as a matter of law (Dravecka v. Richard, 267 N.Y. 180). Recovery may not be had for services rendered to a child where the liability of the father has been fixed in a matrimonial decree (Karminski v. Karminski, 260 App. Div. 491). However, in this case the father retained the child contrary to the custody provisions of the matrimonial...
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