Paine v. Buffa

¶ 1. Mother appeals the family division’s decision to place sole legal parental rights and responsibilities for the parties’ two daughters with father. She also appeals the family division’s award of a share of the equity in the marital home to father. We affirm.

¶ 2. The parties met in 2002 in Colorado, when father was twenty-two and mother was eighteen, and moved in together shortly afterward. After traveling for about a year, they moved to southern Vermont in 2003. In October 2003 mother’s parents, who live in the state of Georgia, financed their daughter’s purchase of a home on Paul’s Road…