MALENKO v. HANDRAHAN

Docket: Cum-09-67.

979 A.2d 1269 (2009)

2009 ME 96

Igor MALENKO v. Lori HANDRAHAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: September 1, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth P. Altshuler, Esq., Childs, Rundlett, Fifield, Shumway & Altshuler, Portland, ME, Michael M. Godsy, Esq., Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, St. Louis, MO, Joan S. Meier, Esq., DV Leap, Washington, DC, for Lori Handrahan.

Michael J. Waxman, Esq., Portland, ME, for Igor Malenko.

Todd S. Holbrook, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA, David A. Sirignano, Esq., Washington, DC, for amici curiae.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] This is a highly contested child custody case. Lori Handrahan appeals from a judgment of divorce entered in the District Court (Portland, Moskowitz, J.), contending that the judgment's relocation provision that transfers primary custody of the parties' daughter if Handrahan relocates from Maine violates Maine statutes and is unconstitutional, that the court erred by excluding expert testimony, and that the court's credibility findings are...

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