Adams v. Morse

How courts have described this case

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• considering official comment to UCCJEA § 202 that jurisdiction attaches at commencement of proceeding to conclude that “a family court’s jurisdiction to modify custody is determined at the time the motion to modify is filed”
• ‘‘the relocation of both parents and the child out of this [c]ommonwealth before commencement of the modification proceeding divested the family court of exclusive, continuing juris- diction’’
• ‘‘[J]urisdiction under the UCCJEA ‘attaches at the commencement of a proceeding’ . . . . So, a family court’s jurisdiction to modify custody is determined at the time the motion to modify is filed.’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).