Ament v. E.J.H.

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a trial court’s custody determination placing custody of T.S.H. with her natural father. The child’s maternal grandmother and extended family members appealed the trial court’s order, claiming “exceptional circumstances” warrant that custody of T.S.H. be placed with them rather than with the child’s natural father. Because the trial court’s finding that exceptional circumstances did not exist in this case was not clearly erroneous, we affirm the trial court’s order.

On January 6, 1993, Vince Ament, a juvenile supervisor for Stutsman County,…