Middleton v. Middleton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that England is equivalent of statutory “home state”
• noting that the form of an order is relevant when deciding whether a court made an initial child custody determination as defined by the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA), the predecessor to the UCCJEA
• finding England the \equivalent of statutory `home state'\ because \English procedural and substantive law of child custody was `reasonably comparable' to the law of Virginia\
• applying UCCJA home state analysis to international child custody dispute because the general policies of the Virginia version of UCCJA “ ‘extend[ed] to the international area’ ”
• noting that the United States Supreme Court had not clarified whether full faith and credit applied to custody decrees, which in part prompted the creation of the model for the UCCJA and the UCCJEA, while declining to address the impact of the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act
• applying the abuse of discretion standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Farley v. Farley
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-23· cited 637×
• Lutes v. Alexander
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-08-25· cited 158×
• Yurgel v. Yurgel
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-01· cited 65×
• Ann C. Meade v. Frank O. Meade
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-03-03· cited 42×
• Jean Fawcett v. Colin McRoberts Tammy McRoberts
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-04-15· cited 35×
• Malik v. Malik
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-03-30· cited 28×
• Amin v. Bakhaty
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2001-10-16· cited 27×
• Ivaldi v. Ivaldi
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1996-12-23· cited 27×
• Johnson v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-12-09· cited 26×
• In Re Marriage of Richardson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-12-27· cited 26×
• Delk v. Gonzalez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-12-13· cited 23×
• Miller v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2008-08-22· cited 18×
• D'Agnese v. D'Agnese
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-19· cited 16×
• Ruppen v. Ruppen
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-05-25· cited 15×
• Beatrice H. v. Joan H.
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-12-16· cited 15×
• James F. Scott v. Jean Hall Rutherfoord
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-06· cited 14×
• State Ex Rel. Griffin v. District Court of Fifth District
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-05-04· cited 13×
• Yost v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-04-12· cited 13×
• Chaddick v. Monopoli
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-12· cited 11×
• Swalef v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-06-26· cited 8×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• New York Ex Rel. Halvey v. Halvey
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-31· cited 419×
• Ford v. Ford
  Supreme Court· 1962-12-10· cited 137×
• Kovacs v. Brewer
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-26· cited 132×
• Kern v. Lindsey
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-06-22· cited 26×
• Oehl v. Oehl
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-11-26· cited 21×
• Falco v. Grills
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-06-10· cited 8×