Klein v. Kelly

¶1 — This is a dispute about jurisdiction to determine child custody. The parties involved here lived in San Juan County. They separated, and the mother moved to Montana with the children. The father followed. Nearly a year later, the mother returned to Washington. Thereafter, the parties sought competing custody orders in both states. Montana is the children’s home state under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), chapter 26.27 RCW. A domestic violence protection order issued in Washington in 2003 awarding temporary custody to the mother expired in 2004 and did…