Strobel v. Strobel

This marital case involves an appeal from an order of the Superior Court (Bean, J.) approving a master’s recommendation and finding the defendant in contempt for nonpayment of alimony to the plaintiff. The issues presented are whether the dismissal of the plaintiff’s prior support petition by a Massachusetts court barred the plaintiff from maintaining this contempt petition in a New Hampshire court, and whether the Master (Larry B. Pletcher, Esq.) correctly found that the parties’ 1974 divorce decree was not governed by the three-year alimony limitation contained in RSA 458:19 as construed…