Potter v. Rosas

On a petition to modify a decree of divorce and custody brought by the libelant the libelee’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction was denied by Loughlin, J., who reserved and transferred libelee’s exception.

The dispute here relates to the custody to Mireille Potter, child of the parties, who was born in Moetsch near Bitburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany on November 21, 1962. In 1968, when the original divorce action was begun, both libelant and libelee were domiciled in New Hampshire but Mireille, their only child, was living with Mrs. Gean Frising in Schifflang, Luxembourg. It appears…