Sidell v. Sidell

OPINION

Justice GOLDBERG,

for the Court.

This case is before the Court on an appeal by Moss Sidell (Moss or defendant) from a Family Court order in favor of Jacalyn Sidell (Jacalyn or plaintiff), his former wife. The parties were divorced in the Rhode Island Family Court in June 2007. When the decree was entered, the plaintiff and the parties’ minor child 1 lived in Connecticut; sometime thereafter the defendant relocated to Massachusetts. In 2009, the defendant filed four post-judgment motions about custody and child-support enforcement issues in the Family Court. Upon motion by the plaintiff,…