Eccleston v. Bankosky

We consider in this case the novel question whether G. L. c. 208, § 28,1 authorizes a Probate and Family *429Court judge to order a divorced father to pay postminority support (support payable after a child’s eighteenth birthday) to a third party appointed as his child’s guardian and with whom his child is domiciled. It does not. A Probate and Family Court judge, however, does have authority pursuant to equity powers vested by the Legislature under G. L. c. 215, § 6, to determine whether the father should be required to support his daughter financially beyond her eighteenth birthday.2 We vacate…