Wagner v. Wagner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Pennsylvania was not “the children's ‘home state,’ and the trial court could not exercise jurisdiction over [the] child custody case on this basis”
• holding parent’s mother needed to seek legal custody of the child from a court to claim a right to legal custody under UCCJEA
• explaining that a custody order will be deemed final even if the order provides for future hearings upon petition by a party
• holding that a trial court’s “temporary” custody order allowing for the possibility of a further hearing is a final order: “a custody order that anticipates future hearings that could take place on application of one of the parties is a final, appealable order.”
• stating the UCCJEA’s predecessor, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, was repealed effective August 16, 2004, when the UCCJEA took effect
• defining residency as “living in a place, requiring only phys- ical presence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jmr v. Jm
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-09· cited 76×
• R.M. v. J.S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-06· cited 65×
• B.J.D. v. D.L.C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-11· cited 34×
• Marriage of Brandt v. Brandt
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2012-01-23· cited 34×
• SCHIRADO v. Foote
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2010-07-13· cited 33×
• Rennie v. ROSENTHOL
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-05-17· cited 31×
• In re F.B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-22· cited 24×
• In re Mampe
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-29· cited 22×
• Billhime v. Billhime
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-03· cited 17×
• Frank R. v. Mother Goose Adoptions
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-02-10· cited 15×
• Frempong, S. v. Richardson, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-30· cited 15×
• M.E.V. v. R.D.V.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-10-23· cited 15×
• T.D. v. M.H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-27· cited 11×
• T.A.M. v. S.L.M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-07· cited 10×
• C.L. v. Z.M.F.H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-17· cited 8×
• Weliver, J. v. Ortiz, I.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-03-08· cited 8×
• O.H. Bel Air v. Hinton, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-05-31· cited 5×
• Dept. of Human Services v. J. A. G.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-10-29· cited 3×
• J.M.R. v. J.M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-09· cited 1×
• State v. Colby
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2010-07-13

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• G.B. v. M.M.B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-01-25· cited 137×
• Parker v. MacDonald
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-09· cited 43×
• Liebner v. Simcox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-08· cited 37×
• Lucas v. Lucas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-08-23· cited 35×
• In Re Estate of Roos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-01· cited 34×
• Mensch v. Mensch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-22· cited 17×
• McCoy v. Thresh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-12· cited 16×
• Norman v. Pennsylvania National Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-22· cited 11×