Legal Opinion
Dincer v. Dincer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 19, 1997No. 0065 E.D. Appeal Docket 1996PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NEWMAN, Justice.
We granted allocatur in this case to determine if the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (trial court) properly held that the Commonwealth is not the appropriate forum for a custody action involving children born and raised in a foreign country.
FACTS
Meltem Dincer (Mother) is an American citizen of Turkish descent who was born and raised in Montgomery County. Fehmi Dincer (Father), is a Turkish citizen who met Mother while he was a student at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The parties married in Ankara, Turkey in 1982, and settled immediately in Belgium,…
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