Legal Opinion
Rubinstein v. Rubinstein
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 15, 1946PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
This libel for divorce, filed February 20, 1945, in the Probate Court for Worcester County, alleges desertion and other grounds and seeks custody of a minor child. The answer contains a denial and sets up that on that date the libellant was not the wife of the libellee, because he had obtained a decree of divorce at Reno, Nevada, on March 28, 1938. At the hearing it was agreed that the libellant was entitled to a decree for desertion unless the Nevada divorce was a bar. From a decree reciting that the parties "are not now husband- and wife, having been divorced in another jurisdiction,” and…
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