342 Ga. App. 605 - Plummer v. Plummer’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “(a) Except as otherwise provided in Code Section 19-9-64, a court of this state which has made a child custody determination consistent with Code Section 19-9-61 or 19-9-63 has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the determination until ... (2) A court of this state or a court of another state determines that neither the child nor the child's parents or any person acting as a parent presently resides in this state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Plummer v. Plummer

2. “[Father] lives in Virginia, [Mother] lives in Florida with the child, and since neither the child nor the parents now reside in Georgia, this Court has lost its exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the child custody determination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Plummer v. Plummer

3. “may decline to exercise its jurisdiction at any time if it determines that it is an inconvenient forum under the circumstances and that a court of another state is a more appropriate forum.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowman v. Bowman.