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Williams v. Williams

Citations

  • 555 N.E.2d 142
  • 1990 Ind. LEXIS 118
  • 1990 WL 77421

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  • holding that the mother had waived any question regarding the authority of the court to decide the issue of custody by affirmatively engaging the Indiana courts to determine custody
  • jurisdictional limitations imposed by the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act [UCCJA] “are not equivalent to declarations of subject matter jurisdiction, but rather are refinements of the ancillary capacity of a trial court to exercise authority over a particular case”

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Judges: Dickson, Shepard, Givan, Pivarnik, Debruler

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