Beaulieu v. Beaulieu

In 1996, more than twenty-two years after her divorce, the appellant, Constance Beaulieu (wife), brought a complaint for contempt against her former husband, Henry J. Beaulieu, Jr. (husband), for protracted noncompliance with the child support and alimony provisions of a 1974 Massachusetts divorce judgment. The husband left Massachusetts shortly after the divorce and has essentially not returned. A Probate and Family Court judge allowed the husband’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction brought pursuant to Mass.R. Dom.Rel.P. 12(b)(2) (1975). The wife appeals, but only as to the…