DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT v. GRULLON

SJC-12784.

485 Mass. 129 (2020)

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT & another v. JOSHUA GRULLON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

June 25, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna S. Richardson (Eve C. Savage Elliott & Catherine Fisher also present) for the defendant.

David C. Kravitz , Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Revenue Child Support Enforcement.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Michael Dsida & Andrew Cohen , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Martin W. Healy & Thomas J. Carey, Jr. , for Massachusetts Bar Association & others.

Jamie Sabino & Deborah Harris for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.

Harvey Weiner & Lincoln A. Rose for Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc.

Ruth A. Bourquin for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Inc.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


The defendant, Joshua Grullon, appeals from a civil contempt order and subsequent judgment by a judge of the Probate and Family Court on a complaint for unpaid child support filed by the defendant's former wife (mother). At the hearing on the complaint, the defendant and the mother appeared pro se, and an attorney represented the child...

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