Weimer v. Weimer

The petitioner, Deborah Weimer, also known as Deborah Wyatt, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing her petition to domesticate an Ohio divorce decree and for permanent custody of her child. The circuit court found it had no jurisdiction to hear the petition in that the child was taken to Illinois by the petitioner in violation of an order of the Ohio court which granted custody to the respondent, Lloyd E. Weimer II.

The parties were married in 1972, and were divorced in Ohio on July 10, 1974. The custody of the parties’ only child, then 18 months old, was granted…