Guertin v. Guertin

OPINION

In this highly contentious custody proceeding, a divorced father appeals from a Family Court order denying his post final-judgment motion to modify custody and/or placement, contending that the trial justice improperly considered the results of a polygraph examination of the child’s mother. In deciding this appeal, however, we need not revisit the question of the admissibility of polygraph test results. The polygraph examination itself was neither offered nor admitted into evidence; rather, the mother’s responses to four pertinent test questions and the examiner’s conclusion were…