Hathaway v. Rickard

This is a petition dated August 21, 1947, and filed in the Probate Court for Middlesex County on September 23, 1947, by Donald D. Hathaway and Ruth V. *502Hathaway, husband and wife, for the adoption of Nancy Abbott Rickard, a minor under fourteen years of age, a child of Ruth V. Hathaway by her former marriage to the respondent, Rickard. The female petitioner obtained a divorce from the respondent in Florida on February 6, 1942. The decree granting the divorce awarded full custody and control of the minor to her, but it contained no provision requiring Rickard to pay any money for the support of…