Chesser v. Chesser-Witmer

OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The superior court modified a child custody order, granting physical custody to the mother during the school year in Fairbanks and to the father during summers and some holidays in Fort Drum, New York. This reversed the arrangement that the court had established one year before, under which the child spent the school year with her father in New York state. The father appeals the modification, arguing that the mother failed to prove a substantial change in circumstances, that the court’s findings of fact were clearly erroneous, and that the court…