Camille Marie Ann Argyropoulos v. Leonidas Argyropoulos.

NOTICE: Summary decisions issued by the Appeals Court pursuant to M.A.C. Rule
23.0, as appearing in 97 Mass. App. Ct. 1017 (2020) (formerly known as rule 1:28,
as amended by 73 Mass. App. Ct. 1001 [2009]), are primarily directed to the parties
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n.4 (2008).

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

APPEALS COURT

25-P-1081

CAMILLE MARIE ANN ARGYROPOULOS1

vs.

LEONIDAS ARGYROPOULOS.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 23.0

Leonidas Argyropoulos (husband) appeals from portions of a

modification judgment and a contempt judgment issued by a judge

of the Probate and Family Court on April 28, 2025. We affirm.

Following his divorce from Camille Marie Ann Argyropoulos

(wife), the husband filed a complaint for modification and a

complaint for contempt. Represented by counsel, both parties

testified at a consolidated trial on the complaints on March 10,

2025. On April 28, 2025, after considering the testimony and

fifty exhibits, the judge issued nine pages of factual findings

and a rationale based on "all credible evidence" presented. In

1As is our custom, we set forth the parties' names as they
appear on the joint petition for divorce, notwithstanding that
the wife subsequently changed her surname.
judgments of the same date, the judge modified the wife's child

support obligation and found the wife was not in contempt with

respect to three of the four violations of the judgment of

divorce alleged in the husband's complaint. The husband, now

pro se, appeals from these judgments.

As the appellant, it is the husband's "obligation to

provide an adequate record for review," Smith v. Jones, 67 Mass.

App. Ct. 129, 134 (2006), but he has not done so. He faults the

judge for numerous factual and legal errors and asks us to

vacate the judgments and remand the case "for new findings

consistent with the evidence." He did not, however, include in

the record appendix copies of the trial transcript, the judgment

of divorce, his complaint for contempt, the wife's answers to

the complaints, most of the trial exhibits, and the parties'

February 2023 financial statements filed at the time of the

prior modification judgment, among other things. In the absence

of a complete record "crucial to our review," Cameron v.

Carelli, 39 Mass. App. Ct. 81, 83 (1995), we are rendered unable

to examine the substance of the husband's claims and must affirm

the judgments. It is not an appellate court's obligation to

locate or create an adequate record for the benefit of a party.

See Chokel v. Genzyme Corp., 449 Mass. 272, 279 (2007) ("When a

party fails to include a document in the record appendix, an

appellate court is not required to look beyond that appendix to

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consider the missing document"). See also Commonwealth v.

Jackson, 419 Mass. 716, 719 (1995) ("pro se litigants are held

to the same standards as practicing members of the bar").

Judgments dated April 28,
2025, affirmed.

By the Court (Meade,
Hodgens & Allen, JJ.2),

Clerk

Entered: April 24, 2026.

2 The panelists are listed in order of seniority.

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