Rusher v. Rice

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court which declined to enforce a modification of custody decree entered in North Carolina. The appellant, the maternal grandmother of the minors who are the subject of the custody decree, obtained an order in North Carolina pursuant to the *183North Carolina version of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act [hereinafter the Act], The order changed custody from the natural mother of the children to the maternal grandmother where the custody had been awarded the mother in a dissolution action ten months earlier.

The issue before the trial court was…