Cabot v. Cabot

Both parties have appealed from the pecuniary components of a divorce judgment. Each of the partners to the marriage, which lasted twelve years, came from privileged circumstances and brought to the marriage significant inherited wealth.

*9041. No error attended exclusion by the probate judge of an actuary’s opinion of the present value of the earning capacity of the husband and wife, respectively, until each reached the age of sixty-five. The wife offered that evidence so that the judge, in making an equitable division of property under G. L. c. 208, § 34, might consider the present value of…