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ORLANDELLA v. ORLANDELLA

370 Mass. 225 (1976)

347 N.E.2d 665

LOUIS ORLANDELLA vs. STELLA ORLANDELLA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

May 4, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard K. Donahue for the defendant.

Stephen L. Mitchell, for the plaintiff, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & WILKINS, JJ.

BRAUCHER, J.

Effective January 1, 1974, the age of majority was changed from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. G.L.c. 4, § 7, Forty-eighth through Fifty-first, as appearing in St. 1973, c. 925 § 1. See Hamann, Eighteen: The New Age of Majority in Massachusetts, 59 Mass. L.Q. 17 (1974). The parties were divorced in 1972, and under G.L.c. 208, § 28, the husband was ordered to pay the wife $45 a week for the support of herself and their minor son. The...

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