Absher v. LaCombe
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
This appeal presents a challenge to the Superior Court’s discretionary power to modify portions of a divorce decree relating to child support and providing for the subsequent exercise of a “choice of domicile” by the parties’ children. Once again we emphasize the high deference which is due the divorce court’s ruling in such cases by the appellate court.
On July 1, 1977, the Plaintiff, Linda M. LaCombe (since, remarried and now known as Linda Absher) and the Defendant, Michael A. LaCombe, were divorced in Superi- or Court (Oxford County). Incorporated into that divorce decree…
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