Surprenant v. Laporte

This case presents the question whether the Master (Henry P. Sullivan, Esq.) applied the standard required by Perreault v. Cook, 114 N.H. 440, 322 A.2d 610 (1974), for determining whether there should be a change of child custody. We affirm.

The parties were divorced on February 3, 1974, and the defendant-mother was given custody of their children. Both parties have since remarried. On January 14, 1980, an ex-parte order awarded temporary custody of the children to the plaintiff-father, who alleged that the children had been abused by their stepbrothers, who then resided in the defendant’s…