Both v. SUPERIOR CT., IN & FOR CTY. OF MOHAVE

CAMERON, Chief Justice.

Petitioner in this special action seeks an order from this court directing respondent The Honorable Gary M. Pope, Judge of the Superior Court of Mohave County, to dismiss respondent Patricia M. Both’s petition for modification of a foreign dissolution decree granting permanent custody of a minor child to her husband. We took jurisdiction in order to consider the recently enacted Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, A.R.S. §§ 8 401 to 8-424, effective 3 September 1978.

We need answer only one question in this special action: Was the trial court’s exercise of…