Goldfarb v. Goldfarb

Jordan, Presiding Justice.

This appeal presents a challenge to the constitutionality of a provision of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (hereinafter the UCCJA), adopted by Georgia and effective as of January 1, 1979, and found in Code Ann. Chap. 74-5.

Carolyn and David Goldfarb were divorced in Pennsylvania in 1972. An extensive agreement governing, among other things, the custody of the couple’s three children was negotiated between them but not incorportated into the divorce decree. Under the terms of this agreement Mrs. Goldfarb would have custody of the children as long as they…