[PDF] Top 20 Chapter 4: Domestic Relations and Persons

... 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

... 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 court found, contrary to the husband's contention, that the actual language of the separation agreement did not rely on entry of the judg- ment nisi, even when the agr[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

... If a husband fails, without justifiable cause, to provide suitable support for his wife, or deserts her, or if the wife has justifiable cause for living apart from[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

... The work of the Domestic Relations Court is worthy of the attention of all persons interested in American courts and is set forth in detail in the first annual report of its able presidi[r] ... See full document

... 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

... First, the court again at£:firmed the prin- ciple of granting probate judges broad discretion in ~etermining what conduct does or does not constitute cruel and abusiv[r] ... See full document

... and concluded that a judicial determination was necessary. 99 Thus, al- though the Court suggested in Spring that in determining whether a court order should be obtained, t[r] ... See full document