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Appeals court hears challenge to removal order allowing two children to move to Wisconsin; judges take case under advisement
Summary
In Docket No. 24P700 the Appeals Court heard argument over a probate judge’s decision allowing a mother to remove two minor children to Wisconsin. The father contends the trial court applied the wrong legal standard and failed to weigh the children’s best interests; the court took the appeal under advisement after argument from both sides.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court heard argument Jan. 15 in Docket No. 24P700, Rappaport v. Rappaport, about whether the Probate and Family Court erred by allowing a mother to remove two minor children to Wisconsin.
Attorney Alisa Hacker, representing the appellant father, argued the trial judge applied the wrong legal standard for removal and improperly treated the mother as the primary custodial parent. Hacker told the panel that the younger child has an IEP and the older…
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