Spaulding v. Spaulding

MEMORANDUM DECISION.

On September 18, 1980, pursuant to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, 19 M.R.S.A. §§ 801 et seq., Jon Spaulding filed with the District Court, Rumford, a certified copy of a 1979 Colorado divorce judgment awarding him custody of his child. On November 13, 1980, his ex-wife Paula filed in the same court a petition for enforcement of a 1980 modification decree entered in Colorado which awarded her custody of the child. After notice and hearing the District Court denied Paula’s petition.

Paula then appealed to the Superior Court. That court reversed the decision of…