Meuse v. Pane

Brian Meuse (petitioner) appeals pursuant to S.J.C. Rule 2:21, 421 Mass. 1303 (1995), from the denial by a single justice of this court of his petition for relief under G. L. c. 211, § 3. A Probate and Family Court judge had issued an order directing the petitioner to return custody of a minor child to the mother, specifying that the mother would have sole legal and physical custody, and suspending the father’s visitation. A single justice'of the Appeals Court had subsequently denied the petitioner’s request for relief.2

We consider the probate judge’s order to be an interlocutory ruling for…