PETERSON v. PETERSON


464 A.2d 202 (1983)

Robert E. PETERSON v. Claire G. PETERSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided August 19, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fales & Fales by Roscoe Fales (orally), Berman, Simmons, Laskoff & Goldberg by Robert A. Laskoff, Lewiston, for plaintiff.

Skelton, Taintor, Abbott & Orestis by Bryan M. Dench (orally), Michael R. Poulin, Lewiston, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS, CARTER and WATHEN, JJ.


NICHOLS, Justice.

In this action we must resolve a jurisdictional controversy between the courts of Maine and Massachusetts in a matter involving the custody of a two-year-old child.

The parents of this child, the Plaintiff, Robert E. Peterson, and the Defendant, Claire G. Peterson, were married in 1975 and divorced in 1979. In 1980, without remarrying, they resumed living together in Massachusetts, their place of residence for the last seven years. Their...

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