Hovav v. Hovav

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that lower court correctly decided jurisdiction issue before taking testimony on the merits of custody issue
• Pennsylvania court properly declined jurisdiction where proceedings ongoing in Israel of which petitioner had notice
• custody decree upheld when wife chose not to avail herself of opportunity to be heard at Israeli proceedings
• children were born in Israel and had spent most of their lives in that country

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Goodman v. Goodman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-04-06· cited 49×
• Black v. Black
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-04-12· cited 13×
• In Re Marriage of Malak
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-03-24· cited 12×
• Ali v. Ali
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1994-05-02· cited 9×
• Bliss v. Bliss
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1999-07-22· cited 7×
• Dincer v. Dincer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-05· cited 6×
• Zimbicki v. Zimbicki
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-28· cited 1×
• Turk v. Turk
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1988-10-26

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hattoum v. Hattoum
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-05· cited 42×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Zaubi v. Zaubi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 23×
• In Re Custody of JSS
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 7×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Piggins v. Kifer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-06· cited 4×