Duro v. Duro

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• fundamental fairness and due process concerns require opportunity for parent in child custody proceedings to rebut adverse allegations concerning his or her child-rearing capabilities
• “fundamental fairness, as well as due process concerns, requires that a parent be given the opportunity effectively to rebut adverse allegations concerning his or her child-rearing capabilities”
• judgment awarding custody of two minor children was reversed because judge had received private oral reports from a probation officer, and parent had no opportunity to cross-examine probation officer
• judgment awarding custody of two minor children was reversed because judge had received private oral reports from probation officer, and parent had no opportunity to cross-examine probation officer
• report of probation officer pursuant to G. L. c. 276, § 85B

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).