Staats v. McKinnon

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that jurisdiction in a UCCJEA case attaches at the commencement of a proceeding
• holding that jurisdiction in a UCCJEA case attaches at the commencement of a proceeding
• stating that, “when a court’s subject matter jurisdiction is questioned, it must first ascertain the nature or gravamen of the case”
• stating that, under the Tennessee version of the UCCJEA, “the court must decide whether it would have jurisdiction to make an initial custody determination under the present circumstances”
• determining that the foreign state’s exclusive, continuing jurisdiction terminated at the time a petition to modify was filed in Tennessee because no party had lived in foreign state for over eleven months
• describing UCCJEA as evolving out of an earlier uniform act and a federal full- faith-and-credit statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).