Orlandella v. Orlandella

Effective January 1,1974, the age of majority was changed from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. G. L. c. 4, § 7, Forty-eighth through Fifty-first, as appearing in St. 1973, c. 925 § 1. See Hamann, Eighteen: The New Age of Majority in Massachusetts, 59 Mass. L.Q. 17 (1974). The parties were divorced in 1972, and under G. L. c. 208, § 28, the husband was ordered to pay the wife $45 a week for the support of herself and their minor son. The question is reported to us whether the obligation to support the child terminates when the child becomes eighteen. See Moss & Levy, The Effect of the New…