In Re the Marriage of Brown

The petitioner appeals from an order of the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Gallatin County, staying all proceedings in Montana and deferring to Arizona’s jurisdiction with regard to the custody of minor children. We affirm.

David Wayne Brown, respondent, and Lynda Sue Brown, petitioner, were married on February 27, 1982 in Utah. They had two children before separating early in 1984. At the time of the separation they resided in Arizona. However, the petitioner left Arizona and came to Montana with the youngest child sometime in early 1984. Apparently, on July 14, 1984,…