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Ross v. Ross

Citations

  • 430 N.E.2d 815
  • 385 Mass. 30
  • 1982 Mass. LEXIS 1227

How courts have described this case

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

  • endorsing judge’s division of marital assets because rationale reflected his consideration of fact that “some of the marital assets may have been used to support another woman”
  • awarding wife one-half of stock owned at time of judgment nisi, where husband had thereafter failed to make payments on loans secured by that stock, lost significant portion of that stock as a result, and spent money on another woman
  • where the court held that the probate judge had broad discretion in deciding how much weight should be given to the husband’s conduct during the marriage
  • Rule 60(b) (5) relief from divorce judgment granted when prior judgment on which divorce was based had been reversed
  • “husband was at fault in increasing the amount of the debt by not tendering payments and by being responsible for collection expenses,” and spent money on another woman
  • death of party prior to entry of judgment absolute abates divorce proceedings

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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Liacos, Nolan, Lynch

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