GUARDIANSHIP OF A MINOR

No. 19-P-1029.

98 Mass. App. Ct. 133 (2020)

GUARDIANSHIP OF A MINOR.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

July 28, 2020.

Corrected August 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was submitted on briefs.

John H. Walsh for the mother.

Julie A. Lowre for the child.

S.M., pro se.

Present: MILKEY, SHIN, & ENGLANDER, JJ.


At issue is whether the Probate and Family Court (probate court or Massachusetts probate court) retained home State jurisdiction over a custody dispute between the mother of the minor child and the child's permanent guardians, L.M. and S.M., who now reside with the child in Michigan. For the first six years of her life, the child lived...

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