Matter of Marriage of Clement

Wife appeals from a decree awarding the parties joint custody of their five-year old daughter and requests that she be given sole custody and additional child support. Husband is agreeable to joint custody, but asks for sole custody if the decree is overturned in this regard.

It would serve no useful purpose to detail the background of the parties’ marriage or to examine the alleged misconduct to which each points in attempting to discredit the other’s fitness to raise the child. The trial court found, as do we, that both parents are fit and proper to raise their daughter and that the evidence…