Carpenter v. Carpenter

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• under UCCJA, home state Pennsylvania required to stay proceedings once informed of prior Massachusetts proceedings
• under section 6(c) of UCCJA, home state court not required to exercise jurisdiction even when substantial evidence is in that state
• custody order was issued by Massachusetts court and Pennsylvania court properly relinquished jurisdiction of later custody action
• since order vacating earlier award of temporary custody and staying custody proceedings on ground that Massachusetts court was already exercising its jurisdiction, the appellant was precluded from litigating the case in Pennsylvania, and order appealed was a final order
• since order vacating earlier award of temporary custody and staying custody proceedings on ground that Massachusetts court was already exercising its jurisdiction, the appellant was precluded from litigating the case in Pennsylvania, and order appealed was a final order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In Re Interest of LW
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-07-24· cited 64×
• Goodman v. Goodman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-04-06· cited 49×
• Guardianship of Donaldson
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-03-05· cited 29×
• Dincer v. Dincer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-19· cited 18×
• Merman v. Merman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-14· cited 17×
• D'Agnese v. D'Agnese
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-19· cited 16×
• Simpkins v. Disney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-22· cited 12×
• Grun v. Grun
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-18· cited 6×
• Marriage of Coleman v. Coleman
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1992-12-01· cited 5×
• Boudwin v. Boudwin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-06· cited 5×
• P.T. v. M.H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-15· cited 4×
• Gehris v. Gehris
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 1998-06-05

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In re D.L.S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 33×
• Wenz v. Schwartze
  Montana Supreme Court· 1979-08-01· cited 29×
• Murphy v. Murphy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-18· cited 23×
• Philco Corp. v. Sunstein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-04-24· cited 14×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Octaviano v. Dombrowski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-04· cited 13×
• Reed v. High
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 12×