Legal Opinion
Harris v. Melnick
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 19, 1989No. 18, September Term, 1988PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RODOWSKY, Judge.
This appeal concerns the proper analysis for determining, where there are multi-state contacts, whether this State can and should exercise jurisdiction over a request to modify the visitation aspects of a child custody order originally entered here. The analysis involves both the Maryland Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (the Md. Uniform Act), Md.Code (1984), §§ 9-201 to 9-224 of the Family Law Article (FL), and FL § 9-302 (the Special Act).
Appellant, Ann Harris (Harris), and the appellee, Jonathan Melnick (Melnick), were divorced a vinculo matrimonii in September 1980…
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- Funk v. MacAulayIndiana Court of Appeals · 1983
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