Catledge v. Evans

These are cross appeals, one from an order by a judge of the Probate and Family Court denying the plaintiff mother permission to move with the parties’ then six year old child to Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and the other from an order by a single justice of this court staying the probate judge’s order pending appeal.

*578The mother and the defendant father were married on June 7, 1997, in Boston. It was the first marriage for each. They have one child, bom May 19, 1999. In February, 2003, both parties (the mother first) sought divorce on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. After…