Court Opinion

ID: 9531377
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:10:20.586229+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:26.052263
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Cutter, J.
(concurring) I concur in the result because there has been no proof concerning the effect under Italian law of the decree of the Italian civil tribunal. Although we may take judicial notice of foreign law not brought to our attention, we are not required to do so. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 233, § 70. De Gategno v. De Gategno, 336 Mass. 426, 431. The opinion of the court thus does not fail to give recogni-*71tian, as matter of comity, to any clearly established necessary incident or effect of that decree. See Restatement 2d: Conflict of Laws (Tent. draft No. 11, April 23, 1965), § 430e. The result is consistent with our cases giving to a proceeding for separation or to a separation decree no greater effect as a bar to a later divorce libel than is necessarily incident to, or involved in, the earlier proceeding or decree. See Espinola v. Espinola, 273 Mass. 450, 452-453; Cochrane v. Cochrane, 303 Mass. 467, 471-473. Cf. Rubinstein v. Rubinstein, 319 Mass. 568, 575-576.