Commonwealth Ex Rel. Piggins v. Kifer

SPAETH, Judge:

This is a child custody case. A court in Michigan entered an order specifying when and where the father could visit the child. The lower court modified the order. We hold that the lower court erred in two respects: it failed to file a comprehensive opinion stating, with reference to the evidence, the reasons for its modification of the Michigan court’s order; and it failed to give the Michigan court’s *208order the effect required by the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, Act of June 30,1977, P.L. 29, No. 20, § 1 et seq., 11 P.S. § 2301 et seq. We shall therefore reverse and…