In re Tammy S.

We are asked to decide whether the Laconia District Court (Huot, J.) properly ruled that Gilford was the town of residence, under RSA 169-B:40, I (Supp. 1983), of Tammy S. on December 16, 1983, when a petition of delinquency was filed with the court. We reverse.

A recalcitrant fourteen-year-old, Tammy has been virtually beyond the control of authorities, her mother, relatives, and friends. The record reveals that Tammy ran away from the home of her godmother, a youth home, and a foster home, twice stole a car, repeatedly “terrorized” her grandmother, was twice placed in the Youth Development…