Wakefield v. Hegarty

James Hegarty (father) appeals from a Probate and Family Court decision granting authority to Laurie Wake-field (mother) to relocate herself and the parties’ minor child to St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands under G. L. c. 208, § 30, and granting her sole physical and legal custody of the child. The father contends that the findings of fact made by the judge are clearly erroneous and should be set aside; that the judge erred as a matter of law and abused her discretion in determining that there was a real advantage to the mother in *773moving to St. Croix; that the judge abused her…