Custody of a Minor

*1014Procedurally the case arose Under a complaint to modify a divorce judgment, thus invoking G. L. c. 208, § 28, which looks to the best interests of the child as the guiding standard for decision of the question of custody. In conclusions of law filed by him, the judge expressed the view that the best interests of the child was the paramount standard by which he was to be guided. In doing so, he overlooked the substantial role played by the Department of Social Services in directing custody away from the natural father and to a maternal aunt. The department had been made a party to the father’s…