Oliver v. Oliver
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed March 27, 1889, alleging that a decree was granted on April 11, 1888, making absolute a divorce nisi entered October 7, 1887, in favor of the respondent, from the petitioner, her husband, for his desertion, and according her the custody of their minor child, with a provision that the husband should “ have the right to see the child at proper and reasonable times and places until the further order of the court”; and that the respondent had failed to obey such…
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Petition, filed March 27, 1889, alleging that a decree was granted on April 11, 1888, making absolute a divorce nisi entered October 7, 1887, in favor of the respondent, from the petitioner, her husband, for his desertion, and according her the custody of their minor child, with a provision that the husband should “ have the right to see the child at proper and reasonable times and places until the further order of the court”; and that the respondent had failed to obey such decree; and asking that she might be required to do so, and that the petitioner might be allowed to see the child at…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
Upon a decree of divorce, the court may make such decree as it may deem expedient concerning the care, custody, and maintenance of the minor children of the parties, and may afterwards, from time to time, on petition of either of the parents, revise and alter such decree, or make a new decree, as the circumstances of the parents and the benefit of the children may require. Pub. Sts. c. 146, § 29. The respondent requested the judge to rule, as matter of law, that there was no evidence upon which the court could justly modify the original decree, and order that the petitioner’s access to the…
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