Crease v. Crease

One month after Rose M. Clay obtained a judgment of divorce nisi in 1983 from William A. Clay in the Commonwealth, Rose M. Clay participated in a marriage ceremony with Edward L. Crease in Long Branch, New Jersey. On the application for the marriage license, she stated her name as Rose M. Johns, and she and Edward L. Crease listed 140 James Street, Long Branch, New Jersey as their place of residence. Following the New Jersey ceremony, Edward L. Crease and Rose M. Crease, as she now called herself, returned to Massachusetts and lived as a married couple in Chicopee.

Some seven years later, on…