Fernandez v. Rodriguez

*354OPINION OF THE COURT

Elizabeth W. Pine, J.

Before the court are cross applications concerning the custody of the four-year-old child of the parties, who are recently divorced. The initial petition of the father requests that this court enforce the provisions of a decree of divorce entered in Puerto Rico which, on the mother’s default, awarded legal custody of the child to the father on September 8, 1978. Respondent mother cross-moves for legal custody of the child, child support, and counsel fees in the amount of $300.

The pertinent facts are briefly set out here. The parties were married in a…