Cartelli v. Martin

The issue on this appeal is whether the superior court properly declined to exercise jurisdiction under RSA ch. 458-A (Supp. 1979), the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, over a cross-petition filed by the defendant to modify a Connecticut decree pertaining to the custody of the parties’ children. We affirm the court’s dismissal of the defendant’s cross-petition to modify.

The defendant, in his answer to plaintiff’s petition to enforce the Connecticut decree of custody dated November 21, 1979, admitted the following facts. The plaintiff was divorced from the defendant by judgment and…