Abbott v. Virusso

A judge of the Probate and Family Court denied Rosalee Abbott’s request, set forth in a complaint for modification of a divorce judgment, that she be allowed to relocate with her son and fiancé from Newton to Tucson, Arizona. The judge’s findings do not reflect whether he gave “continued consideration of the quality of Ufe of the custodial parent,” Pizzino v. Miller, 61 Mass. App. Ct. 865, 875 (2006), in deciding as he did. In addition, certain findings appear to rely on statements of the child, then eleven years old, made in an unrecorded, in camera interview with the judge to which the…