Stevens v. Stevens

There is no basis for reversing the decree of the Probate Court for Suffolk County here presented for review on the evidence and a report of material facts. The decree, dated August 15, 1957, modified prior decrees for custody of two minor children of the divorced parents and for the first time awarded the custody of the daughter, aged eleven, to the child’s mother, the libellant, and ordered the libellee to pay $15 a week toward the support of the daughter. See G. L. c. 208, § 28. The minor son, at all times after the divorce in 1948, had been in the mother’s custody.

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