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KENNEDY v. KENNEDY

400 Mass. 272 (1987)

508 N.E.2d 856

LILLIAN F. KENNEDY vs. GEORGE D. KENNEDY (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

June 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Shapiro (William C. Newman with him) for the plaintiff.

Richard B. Blazar (Sumner D. Goldberg with him) for the defendant.

Jon Laramore, Lynda G. Christian & Alison E. McCrone, for Family Law Committee of the Boston Bar Association & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

We are here concerned with the question of counsel fees under G.L.c. 215, § 34A,1 in an action for contempt against a party for failure to obey a Probate Court support order. After finding the defendant husband, George, in contempt of such a support order, a probate judge included an award for counsel fees and expenses in a judgment of divorce after rescript. The plaintiff wife, Lillian, claims on appeal that the amount...

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