Yannas v. Frondistou-Yannas

Each party to these cross actions for divorce has appealed, challenging aspects of the divorce judgment but not the dissolution of the marriage. The most significant issue is whether the judge, having awarded physical custody of the parties’ two minor children to the wife, properly authorized her to take the children to Greece to live. The judge’s task was to assess the effect of such a move on the children in circumstances in which the move would clearly benefit the wife but would adversely affect the father’s right to visit his children regularly.

On October 16,1984, substantively identical…