Ellis v. Ellis

A judge in the Probate and Family Court Department granted the plaintiff a divorce nisi, and temporarily ordered that the Department of Social Services would take legal custody of the defendant mother’s child. In a memorandum of decision, the judge found the following facts bearing on questions of custody, visitation, and child support. The parties were married on January 23, 1988. The defendant mother gave birth one month later. The child is named after the plaintiffs grandfather. The plaintiff was present at the birth and is named as the father on the child’s birth certificate. However, the…