Commonwealth Ex Rel. Gorto v. Gorto

MONTEMURO, Judge:

The instant matter presents a custody contention in which the mother of a child has sought to regain her daughter from the parents of her second husband, former stepfather to this child.

The child was the offspring of an early first marriage which was annulled prior to the child’s birth. When the mother remarried, she left the child with her own mother for about three months, after which the child joined the mother and stepfather and step-grandparents in a single household.

The new husband became increasingly violent, at one point threatening to kill his wife and stepchild with…