Seligman-Hargis v. Hargis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court’s jurisdiction to hear divorce action did not automatically give it authority to decide child custody issues as well
• holding father, who was in Germany with mother and child as a Department of Defense employee, was required to show the German court had declined jurisdiction before Texas could assume same
• “[S]ection 6.308 establishes that the legislature specifically contemplated that a court might have jurisdiction over a divorce, but not a child custody determination.”
• “[S]ection 6.308 establishes that the legislature specifically contemplated that a court might have jurisdiction over a divorce, but not a child custody determination.”
• “[I]t is well settled that subject matter jurisdiction cannot be conferred by consent, waiver, or estoppel.”
• “The party seeking to invoke the trial court’s jurisdiction has the burden to allege facts that affirmatively demonstrate a court’s authority to hear a case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).