Legal Opinion
McDonald v. Wrigley
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided February 22, 1994No. 82464PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMERS, Justice.
Father and mother were divorced in 1986. The mother now has custody of the child. Paternal grandmother obtained an order for visitation in 1989. In 1993 the grandmother sought custody by intervening in the divorce proceeding with a motion to modify custody filed in the court that rendered the divorce decree. The trial court granted temporary custody to Grandmother for a few days, but then dismissed the proceeding for lack of jurisdiction, and thus triggered an appeal by Grandmother. For the same reason the court dismissed Grandmother’s application for temporary custody…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- A.E. v. StateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1987
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3Cited by35 opinions
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