Silvia v. Silvia

How courts have described this case

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• there now exists “a comprehensive statutory and common law pattern which places marital and parental obligations on both the husband and wife”
• the income and assets of second spouses are part of the circumstances relevant to the ability of parents to use their own resources to contribute to the support of their children
• Massachusetts comprehensive statutory scheme and common law regarding care and maintenance of minor children treats mother and father alike
• collecting support and custody statutes containing no gender distinction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).