Kelly v. Kelly, 50 Mass.App.Ct. 1101 (2000)

Kelly v. Kelly, 50 Mass.App.Ct. 1101 (2000)

 Generally, a party may not present an argument on appeal that has not been presented in the trial court. White v. White,  40 Mass.App.Ct. 132, 133 (1996); Liacos, Massachusetts Evidence ยง3.8.1 (7th ed. 1999) ("Failure  to object to offered evidence operates to waive objections to its admissibility").  The present case does not present exceptional or particular circumstances which prompt us, in the interests of justice, to consider questions of law that were neither pressed nor passed upon below. See Cruz v. Commissioner of Pub. Welfare,  395 Mass. 107, 111 (1985); White v.. White , supra  at 133.


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