Kennedy v. Kennedy

On reservation and report 1 from the Probate Court we are asked to decide: (1) whether the long-arm provision in G. L. c. 223A, § 3(g), inserted by St. 1976, c. 435, may, on the facts presented, retroactively confers jurisdic tion over a nonresident defendant in a domestic relations action; (2) the validity of a divorce decree granted in Arizona; (3) whether jurisdiction may have rested on other provisions in G. L. c. 223A; and (4) whether the nonresident husband is estopped from litigating the validity of the Arizona divorce decree at a subsequent evidentiary hearing.

All the facts we are to…