Legal Opinion
O'Connell v. Greenwood
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 4, 2003No. 01-P-1451PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcHugh, J.
Parental inability to agree on most aspects of an order for joint legal custody of a five year old boy led to extended legal proceedings and, ultimately, to two judgments of *148contempt against the child’s mother, Nancy Greenwood (mother). From those judgments, the mother appeals. We affirm.
Legal proceedings in this difficult case have been in progress since shortly after the child was bom on February 13, 1995. The parents were not married at the time, and on January 12, 1996, the mother brought a complaint to establish that the defendant, Geoffrey O’Connell (father), was the child’s father. In…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. DelaneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Felton v. FeltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Custody of VaughnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
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