Legal Opinion
Miller v. Miller
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 9, 2007PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
We transferred this case from the Appeals Court to *321consider a reported question from a judge in the Probate and Family Court whether her interlocutory ruling that the court had personal jurisdiction over the defendant husband pursuant to G. L. c. 223A, § 3 (g), was proper.1 The husband lives in Arizona and the wife lives in Massachusetts. Because we conclude that the statute’s plain language does not require that a husband and wife both be domiciled in the Commonwealth at the time an act giving rise to a claim for divorce occurs, and that the requirements of due process have been met in this…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Good Hope Industries, Inc. v. Ryder Scott Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Madsen v. ErwinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
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3Cited by22 opinions
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