Cloutier Hay v. Cloutier

How courts have described this case

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• holding that G. L. c. 208, § 34, is substantive and could not be applied retroactively
• statute establishing new substantive right of the parties to a division of property in a divorce proceeding
• equitable division viewed as a new substantive right

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