Legal Opinion
Peterson v. Peterson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 19, 1983PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
In this action we must resolve a jurisdictional controversy between the courts of Maine and Massachusetts in a matter involving the custody of a two-year-old child.
The parents of this child, the Plaintiff, Robert E. Peterson, and the Defendant, Claire G. Peterson, were married in 1975 and divorced in 1979. In 1980, without remarrying, they resumed living together in Massachusetts, their place of residence for the last seven years. Their child, Benjamin, was born in 1981.
During the autumn of 1982 differences developed between the parents which culminated in the present appeal.…
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