Trask v. Trask

OPINION

BIVINS, Judge.

This appeal involves a child custody dispute and application of the New Mexico Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, NMSA 1978, Sections 40-10-1 to -24 (Repl.1986) (NMCCJA). The mother, Cherie Trask, appeals from an order of the district court of Dona Ana County which modified the terms of a dissolution decree entered by the same court in 1982. Our calendaring notice proposed summary reversal on the ground that the New Mexico court lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the NMCCJA. The father, Michael Trask, filed a timely memorandum in opposition contesting our proposed…