Child v. Child

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• it is a general mie that an issue not raised in the trial court cannot be argued for the first time on appeal
• life estate generally defined as “right to the use, possession and income from a piece of property for the lifetime of an individual”
• judge may accept reasonable expert opinion on valuation
• valuing life estate for purpose of divorce

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• D.L. v. G.L.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-07-16· cited 20×
• Altomare v. Altomare
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-09-08· cited 16×
• Boston Water & Sewer Commission v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-09-28· cited 5×
• In re Peirce
  D. Massachusetts· 2012-10-01· cited 5×
• White v. Johnson
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 2004-01-15· cited 1×
• Fazio v. Fazio
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-02-24
• Amory v. Checroune
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 2004-01-22
• Messere v. Messere
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 2015-01-30
• Obara v. Ghoreishi
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2023-11-16

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lauricella v. Lauricella
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-01-22· cited 353×
• Davidson v. Davidson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-02-20· cited 90×
• Williams v. Massa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-05-25· cited 83×
• Drapek v. Drapek
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-02-17· cited 72×
• Bianco v. Bianco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-12-06· cited 70×
• Baccanti v. Morton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-08-13· cited 68×
• S.L. v. R.L.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-09-18· cited 59×
• M. H. Gordon & Son, Inc. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-04-30· cited 56×
• Fechtor v. Fechtor
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-02-14· cited 55×
• Savides v. Savides
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-06-11· cited 40×
• Pare v. Pare
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-01-30· cited 32×
• Jones v. Vappi & Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-11-22· cited 30×
• Filippone v. Mayor of Newton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-07· cited 21×
• Comins v. Comins
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-07-23· cited 17×
• Dewan v. Dewan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-02-19· cited 8×
• Daugherty v. Daugherty
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-01-23· cited 4×