Legal Opinion
Tufares v. Wright
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided April 13, 1982No. 13652PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RIORDAN, Justice.
This appeal follows a New Mexico trial court order modifying a Utah district court judgment which granted custody of the two minor children to their father, Charles Wright (father). The Utah proceeding was a modification of a previous New Mexico divorce judgment, which had granted custody to the mother, Donna Lee Tufares (mother). We find that the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980 (PKPA), 28 U.S.C.A. § 1738A (Spec.Pamp.1981) must be followed by the New Mexico court and we reverse the trial court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
On June 6, 1978, the New…
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