Tuyen Quoc Lien, Individually and D/B/A Sea Dragon Restaurant v. WP Developments, LLC, D/B/A Western Paradise, LLC And BM Developments, LLC

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• holding that infant who was born in Kansas and thereafter lived several months in Missouri had no “home state” under the UCCJA, and therefore court must look to which state had most significant connection and evidence concerning family
• considering where child was born, where parents lived for past considerable period of time, state that paid Medicaid expenses associated with birth
• considering state that most recently took custody of siblings had evidence of father's sexual abuse of siblings, mother's failure to protect them, and parents' domestic abuse and substance abuse problems
• considering state that most recently took custody of siblings had evidence of father’s sexual abuse of siblings, mother’s failure to protect them, and parents’ domestic abuse and substance abuse problems
• applying prior version of model law, concluding that Kansas was not home state of newborn child “simply because R.P. and her mother stayed in a hospital there for two days after R.P.’s birth”
• “Missouri [is not] the state in which she has lived since birth, because she was born in Kansas”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).