Sax v. Sax

Following protracted and fractious divorce proceedings, Lawrence and Gloria Sax reached an agreement later incorporated into a judgment ending their forty-year marriage. Lasting peace, however, proved elusive. Lawrence soon filed a complaint for contempt alleging that Gloria had violated a provision of the agreement prohibiting her from disclosing what she claimed were Lawrence’s pre-agreement financial misdeeds. Denying that she had violated anything, Gloria moved to dismiss the complaint. A judge of the Probate Court agreed with her, allowed her motion, and dismissed the complaint without…