Koller v. Koller

Mother appeals from a judgment dismissing her petition for the court to assume jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA), ORS 109.700 to ORS 109.930. We review de novo, ORS 19.125(3), and affirm.

Mother and father divorced in 1988 in California. The judgment of dissolution, entered by a California court, awarded them joint custody of their three children, but awarded mother physical custody. Mother and two of the children, Jonathan and Jessica, have lived in Oregon continuously since 1986.1 Father lives in California and the two children visit him there during…