Clarke v. Clarke

This case presents the sole issue whether the trial court erred in dismissing, for lack of jurisdiction, a petition for modification of an out-of-State custody decree. We find that it did not and affirm.

The plaintiff mother, Jacqueline Clarke, and the defendant father, William J. Clarke, were married in 1976 and thereafter resided in Binghamton, New York. They had one child, Thomas, born on May 21,1979. They separated in June 1981, when the mother moved with the child to Concord, New Hampshire, where they have since lived. The Clarkes were divorced by decree of the Family Court, Broome…