In Re Marriage of Weinstein

Susan Weinstein (hereinafter the mother) appeals from the trial court’s judgment awarding custody to her former husband, Larry Weinstein (hereinafter the father), of the two minor children of their marriage, Noah and Jason. The issues raised are whether the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction or alternatively was an inconvenient forum, and whether the judgment appealed from was manifestly unjust to the mother. For the reasons given below, we affirm and remand with directions.

The mother and father, both reared in Illinois, were married here in 1971; Noah was born in 1974 in…