E.N. v. E.S.

We are asked to decide whether child custody provisions of a divorce judgment of the Probate and Family Court may be challenged by the plaintiff, E.N. (father), in a subsequent proceeding. The father claims that the Probate and Family Court lacked jurisdiction over the issue of custody as it *183relates to the parties’ older child, who was bom in Puerto Rico. Without the father’s consent, the defendant, E.S. (mother), removed that child to Massachusetts where she has family, there obtaining an abuse prevention order on allegations of abuse by the father that were, in a later proceeding, credited…