92 Mass. App. Ct. 639 - Sbrogna v. Sbrogna’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ross v. Ross · Galiastro v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. · Duff-Kareores v. Kareores · 87 Mass. App. Ct. 756 - Valaskatgis v. Valaskatgis
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]o read the statute otherwise would lead to the nonsensical result that service of a pleading that leads neither to a valid divorce nor to an alimony award could nonetheless serve as the basis for calculating the length of a marriage and the duration of alimony, even if the parties reconciled and lived together for decades before ultimately divorcing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“number of months from the date of legal marriage to the date of service of a complaint or petition for divorce or separate support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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