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The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) is a Uniform Act drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1997. [1] The UCCJEA has since been adopted by 49 U.S. States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
HB1207 by was filed on February 9, 2011, and referred to the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence committee. [25] [26] The bill was left pending in committee. However, the law on which UCAPA is based—Texas's Prevent International Parental Child Abduction Act—had already been enacted in 2003 as Texas Family Code 153.501-503.
Uniform Act to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses from Without a State in Criminal Proceedings: 1936 Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act: 1995 Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act: 2006 Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act: 1968 Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act: 1997 Uniform Collateral Consequences of ...
Massachusetts would be the last in the nation to adopt the standard framework known as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.
Divorce laws allow the parents to file the divorce in either state. However, custody laws only allow jurisdiction to exist in the state where the child or children reside. In 1997 the Uniform Child Custody Enforcement Jurisdiction Act (UCCJEA) was created to address the question of which state has jurisdiction over a child custody case. The ...
In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
A Texas couple who have made national news for disagreeing over their child's gender identity have now been granted joint custody, a judge said Thursday.. Anne Georgulas and Jeffrey Younger have ...
The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) requires states to apply the law of the "home state;" that is, the forum which originally determined custody and maintenance. A state court will only apply its own law when no parent retains a connection with the original jurisdiction and when substantial evidence is available ...