Bissonette v. Gambrel

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in evaluating child’s best interests, trial judge may rely upon his or her own common sense, experience in life, and the common experience of mankind
• affirming award of custody of child born out of wedlock to mother because her role as primary custodian outweighed other factors that were unfavorable to her
• affirming award of custody of child bom out of wedlock to mother because her role as primary custodian outweighed other factors that were unfavorable to her
• upholding trial court's use of § 665(b) factors to determine custody of child
• “focus of the court’s decision must be the best interest of the child, not equity between the parties”
• trial court has broad discretion within statutory guidelines to determine child’s best interest, and its judgment stands unless clearly erroneous

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