In the Interest of Nc and Am, Minor Children, Sc and Fc, Iii v. State of Wyoming, Department of Family Services

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• holding that similar emergency jurisdiction provision of the UCCJEA did not \include the authority to make permanent custody determinations\
• “Emergency jurisdiction under the UCCJEA . . . does not include the authority to make permanent custody determinations.” (citation omitted)
• where a custody proceeding was already pending in the children’s home state of Texas, a Wyoming court exer- cising temporary emergency jurisdiction had to comply with the requirements of Wyoming’s equivalent of ORS 109.751(3)
• court had temporary emergency jurisdiction where the children were at risk of mistreatment or abuse if returned to the mother in Texas, even though the children were with their grandparent in Wyoming with permission of the mother
• \The dominant objective of the [UCCJEA] is 'to eliminate the simultaneous exercise of jurisdiction over custody [determinations]' \ and to provide a uniform set of rules to determine which state is best positioned to adjudicate custody disputes.

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