In Re Jorgensen

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• analyzing former Iowa Code chapter 598A, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA), predecessor to the UCCJEA
• stating the question of whether a court has subject matter jurisdiction may be raised at any time
• noting the precursor to UCCJEA “set forth the jurisdictional requirements with regard to a custody determination,” which were questions of subject matter jurisdiction the court could determine even though the parties did not raise them
• “The UCCJEA provides the ‘exclusive 6 But, as the juvenile court pointed out, J.C’s father Ashton’s parental rights would also have to be terminated before Ashley could adopt J.C. 7 jurisdictional basis for making a child custody determination by this state.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).