952 So. 2d 1131 - Patrick v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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1. “"(1) The court of the other state determines that it no longer has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under Section 30-3B-202 or that a court of this state would be a more convenient forum under Section 30-3B-207 ; or "(2) A court of this state or a court of the other state determines that the child, the child's parents, and any person acting as a parent do not presently reside in the other state."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Breslow v. Breslow (Ex parte Breslow) · 163 So. 3d 1054 - H.T. v. Cleburne County Department of Human Resources

2. “"[t]he state in which the child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least six consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding. In the case of a child less than six months of age, the term means the state in which the child lived from birth with any of the persons mentioned."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hensley v. Kanizai · Stulce v. Stulce

3. ““ ‘The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (“PKPA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, and Alabama’s version of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (“UCCJEA”), codified at Ala.Code 1975, § 30-3B-101 et seq., govern when a state has jurisdiction to decide a child-custody issue. The PKPA states that continuing jurisdiction remains in a state that has made a child-custody determination provided that the state continues to have jurisdiction under the state’s laws and the child or at least one “contestant” resides in that state. 28 U.S.C. § 1738A(d); see also Holloway v. Holloway, 519 So.2d 531, 532 (Ala.Civ.App.1987).’ ” “M.J.P. v. K.H., 923 So.2d 1114, 1116 (Ala.Civ.App.2005). The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (‘PKPA’) defines a ‘contestant’ as ‘a person, including a parent or grandparent, who claims a right to custody or visitation of a child.’ 28 U.S.C. § 1738A(b)(2). “Under the PKPA, the trial court retained continuing jurisdiction to modify the children’s custody so long as it retained jurisdiction under the laws of Alabama and at least one of the contestants continued to live in Alabama. 28 U.S.C. § 1738A(d). The maternal grandmother has lived in Tallapoosa County at all times relevant to this appeal, and she meets the criteria outlined in the PKPA to be a ‘contestant’ because she is a person claiming a right to custody of the children. See 28 U.S.C. § 1738A(b)(2). Therefore, our analysis next turns to whether the trial court could, under Alabama’s version of th”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hensley v. Kanizai