P.F. v. N.C.

SCHWELB, Senior Judge:

On December 21, 2005, following an evi-dentiary hearing, the trial judge awarded legal custody of N.J.C., then ten years of age, and his younger brother, R.B.C., then aged seven, to their father, N.C. The boys’ mother, P.F., appeals, claiming primarily that in determining the best interests of the children, the trial judge failed to accord appropriate weight to the father’s physical abuse of the mother, which was reflected in the judge’s finding in an earlier proceeding that the father had committed two intrafamily offenses against her. The father responds that there is…