Legal Opinion
Feakes v. Bozyczko
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 10, 1977PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
This case involves the application of St. 1973, c. 925, § 1 — which decreased the age of majority in Massachusetts from twenty-one to eighteen years — to the duty of a former husband to provide child support under a separation agreement and divorce decree in effect prior to the effective date of the statute. The former wife (plaintiff) filed a petition in the Probate Court for Berkshire County for a declaratory judgment that the term “majority” in the separation agreement and divorce decree required the former husband (defendant), to continue payments for the support of each of their three…
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