Lawrence D. Brown McCarter v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[w]e construe the UCCJEA liberally so as to carry out the remedial aspects of the law”
• “Generally, to exercise jurisdiction under this statute, there must be an immediate danger of harm or abuse.”
• where issue on appeal involved the trial court's jurisdiction over the custody dispute and order awarding temporary custody, case could have been brought as a direct appeal
• “[e]very state has adopted the UCCJEA”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).