BELLIVEAU v. WHELAN

Docket: Yor-18-509.

213 A.3d 617 (2019)

2019 ME 122

Mark BELLIVEAU v. Janet WHELAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 30, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana E. Prescott, Esq. (orally), Prescott Jamieson Murphy Law Group, LLC, Saco, for appellant Mark Belliveau.

James B. Smith, Esq. (orally), Woodman Edmands Danylik Austin Smith & Jacques, P.A., Biddeford, for appellee Janet Whelan.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.


[¶1] Mark Belliveau appeals from the District Court's (Biddeford, Sutton, J.) dismissal of his complaint for divorce from Janet Whelan because the parties were never legally married. Belliveau argues that the court erred by declining to adopt the putative spouse doctrine or the doctrine of marriage by estoppel. We affirm the...

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