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... The Appeals Court reversed the probate judge and dismissed the wife's complaint seeking modification of the divorce judgment. 52 The court noted, first, that the qualification [r] ... See full document

... the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that the interests of the custodial parent should be taken into account in determining whether the best interests of the child wo[r] ... See full document

... First, the Supreme Judicial Court held that the forwarding by the initiating state to the wrong District Court,3 followed by the forward- ing by that court to the proper[r] ... See full document

... Thereafter the first husband filed this petition for modification, and the Probate Court entered a decree modifying the original decree by striking therefrom all provi[r] ... See full document

... allowed the Department of Public Welfare to commence a proceed- ing in Probate Court to establish whether the consent of any person named in Sections 2 and 3 would b[r] ... See full document

... In adopting this view, at least with respect to Chapter 209, Section 32, proceedings, the Court reasoned that the presence of the parents who are competing for the [r] ... See full document

... In summary, the Court introduced into the divorce law the basic premise of the criminal defence of insanity, that mental disease or defect alone is insufficient [r] ... See full document

... In speaking of advances made by the corporation to the libelee, the Supreme Judicial Court said that these advances were either gifts or loans, and if gifts they could be [r] ... See full document

... This enlargement to include mental cruelty within the definition of cruelty as a ground for divorce has been held within strict limits by a line of cases that hold [r] ... See full document

... In drafting separation agree- ments and divorce decrees as to support payments, the amount should be allocated specifically into a portion for alimony and a portion fo[r] ... See full document

... Prior to this act the law had left largely to the dis- cretion of the court the question of notice given upon the appointment of guardians of minors, except when custody was [r] ... See full document

... Probate Courts have heretofore had such jurisdiction only incidentally or ancillary to actions for separate support, divorce and desertion and living apart for justif[r] ... See full document

... authorized to remove children subject to the foregoing provisions where, in the judgment of the Department the welfare of the child or its protection from neglect or abu[r] ... See full document

... It was apparently not left open to determine upon evidence the ques· tion of which the judge had -made a determination upon judicial no- tice; the only question left op[r] ... See full document

... They argued that the Goldman case left the matter of granting or denying such adop- tions within the discretion of the probate judge, that is, if the interests of the [r] ... See full document

... The Arkansas statutes involved were so-called "full crew" statutes, enacted prior to World War II, which provided for a minimum num- ber of employees in designated[r] ... See full document

... Only the future will determine (1) whether such union conduct is to be considered as "governable by the State or it is entirely ungoverned," in which case [r] ... See full document

... Rather it noted that the probate judge had denied a petition for modification filed by the husband, not on the bash of the agree- ment, but because the awarded alimony [r] ... See full document

... The filing of an ap- peal shall not stay the operation of any other order or judgment of the court relative to custody, visitation, alimony, support or maintenance[r] ... See full document

... the property division was not clearly stated by the probate judge. It appeared, however, that the judge had considered capital contributions to the property in qu[r] ... See full document