Melgar v. Campo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that decision to relinquish exclusive, continuing jurisdiction generally belongs to court holding such
• stating that the UCCJEA’s goal is to “allow[] the court that makes the original custody determination to retain exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over that order”
• explaining the UCCJEA’s purpose is to “address the issue of competing orders and duplicative jurisdiction”
• noting purposes of UCCJEA include avoiding “jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other states [, and to] ... [p]romote cooperation with the courts of other states”
• finding UCCJEA “requires that the family court must confer with the judge who issued the out-of-state custody order and/or get the out-of-state court to release its continuing jurisdie tion over its custody order before modifying an out-of-state order”
• “The UCCJEA rejects the concurrent modification interpretation and adopts a rule of exclusive continuing jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).