Rees v. Reyes

KERN, Senior Judge:

Appellee-mother in February, 1991, filed in the Arlington, Virginia court a petition for custody of the parties’ child. 1 Appellee was then living in Virginia, but had formerly resided in the District of Columbia with appellant-father. On March 14th, the Virginia court granted appellee temporary custody of the child. The Virginia court acknowledged, as the trial court here noted in its order now on appeal, that the issue of its ultimate jurisdiction was to be litigated.

Thereafter, appellant-father filed on March 20th in the trial court here a motion for temporary custody,…