IN INTEREST OF E.J.H.

Civil No. 950248.

546 N.W.2d 361 (1996)

In the Interest of E.J.H. and T.S.H., Minor Children. Vince AMENT, Petitioner and Appellee, v. E.J.H., a Minor Child, T.S.H., a Minor Child, M.H., Mother of E.J.H. and T.S.H., and B.C., Father of E.J.H., Respondents, and Q.P., Father of T.S.H., Respondent and Appellee, and L.H., Maternal Grandmother of E.J.H. and T.S.H., and L.O., Maternal Aunt of E.J.H. and T.S.H., Intervenors and Appellants, and D.B. and J.B., Maternal Grand Uncle and Grand Aunt of E.J.H. and T.S.H., K.O., Maternal Uncle of E.J.H. and T.S.H., and W.S. and T.S., Maternal Uncle and Aunt of E.J.H. and T.S.H., Intervenors.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

April 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Greenwood, State's Attorney, Jamestown, for petitioner and appellee Vince Ament. Submitted statement.

Joseph F. Larson II, Jamestown, for respondent and appellee Q.P.

Monty G. Mertz, Fargo, ND, for intervenors and appellants.


VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a trial court's custody determination placing custody of T.S.H. with her natural father. The child's maternal grandmother and extended family members appealed the trial court's order, claiming "exceptional circumstances" warrant that custody of T.S.H. be placed with them rather than with the child's natural father. Because the trial court's finding that exceptional circumstances did not exist in this case was not...

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