Moffitt v. Moffitt

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• child spent first CT Page 11884 several years of his life in Pennsylvania, and child's father returned to Pennsylvania to bring original custody action
• exercise of significant contacts jurisdiction by Pennsylvania substantially furthered the policies underlying the UCCJA since Father, though a resident of Florida, elected to bring custody action here, thus there was little likelihood of disagreement between courts of Florida and Pennsylvania
• evidence of significant connections with Pennsylvania shown by mother’s residence in Pennsylvania, child’s presence in Pennsylvania during first several years of his life, and fact that father who sought custody of child brought action in Pennsylvania even though a resident of Florida

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Favacchia v. Favacchia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-27· cited 9×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hattoum v. Hattoum
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-05· cited 42×
• Warman v. Warman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-08· cited 29×
• Tettis v. Boyum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 28×
• In Re Custody of Sagan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-28· cited 27×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Zaubi v. Zaubi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-27· cited 24×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Zaubi v. Zaubi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 23×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Octaviano v. Dombrowski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-04· cited 13×
• Levin v. Barish
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-04· cited 12×
• Rohrer v. Rohrer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-13· cited 2×