§ 76-b. Jurisdiction to modify determination. Except as otherwise\nprovided in section seventy-six-c of this title, a court of this state\nmay not modify a child custody determination made by a court of another\nstate unless a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial\ndetermination under paragraph (a) or (b) of subdivision one of section\nseventy-six of this title and:\n 1. The court of the other state determines it no longer has exclusive,\ncontinuing jurisdiction under section seventy-six-a of this title or\nthat a court of this state would be a more convenient forum under\nsection seventy-six-f of this title; or\n 2. A court of this state or a court of the other state determines that\nthe child, the child's parents, and any person acting as a parent do not\npresently reside in the other state.\n
N.Y. Dom. Rel. Law § 76-b
Jurisdiction to modify determination
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 45 Misc. 3d 951 - R.B. v. K.G. (2014)
Most recently applied in Matter of Sneed v. Campagn (December 2022)
2014-09-22
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