Greenhough v. Goforth

Ray Thornton, Justice.

This appeal arises from the Washington County Circuit Court’s dismissal of a petition brought by appellant, Elenita Greenhough Duckett, against appellee, Ronald R. Goforth, to determine the paternity of her child, H.J., and to establish child support. The trial court dismissed appellant’s petition for lack of jurisdiction on the grounds that the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act (“UCCJEA”), codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 9-19-101 et seq. (Repl. 2002), applied and that Arkansas was not the home state of H.J. We agree and affirm.

Appellant, who was born in…