Atkins v. Vigil

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under UCCJEA “[a] child’s home state is determined at the time an action commences”
• holding, in proceedings commenced within six months of child’s move from Alaska, that Alaska retained home state jurisdiction
• noting that PKPA and UCCJEA grant exclusive jurisdiction to the home state
• “A child’s home state is determined at the time an action commences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).