Ratz v. Ratz

BECK, Judge:

This appeal concerns the appealability of an order sustaining subject matter jurisdiction of a Pennsylvania court in a dispute under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, 42 Pa.Cons.Stat. §§ 5341-5366 (1981).

The parties were divorced in 1983. They agreed that appellant mother would have primary custody of their daughter Kristen, and the appellee father would have liberal partial custody. In August 1984, mother moved with Kristen to Ohio to pursue a master’s degree in theology. Father had partial custody in Pennsylvania during Kristen’s school vacations and in Ohio when he…