Warman v. Warman

MONTEMURO, Judge:

This child custody action was initiated by a Pennsylvania-resident father for custody of Philip, a nine-year-old son, whose primary residence has been with his California-resident mother since 1975.

The court below found that the exercise of jurisdiction in Pennsylvania would be improper, and it sustained respondent-mother’s (the appellee herein) objection to jurisdiction and dismissed petitioner-father’s (the appellant herein) habe-as corpus petition. We affirm.

HISTORY OF THE CASE

The parents in this action were divorced in 1972. In a Separation Agreement executed by the…