Houtchens v. Houtchens

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari that brings before us an interlocutory ruling in a Family Court case involving child custody. The mother seeks review of a Family Court order awarding the parties temporary joint custody of the minor children with physical possession in the father. Although certiorari does not ordinarily lie where the petition seeks review of an interlocutory order, under the recognized exceptions, we granted the mother’s petition on December 30, 1982.

The Houtchens were married in Newport, Rhode Island, on October 1,1977, and moved almost…