D.B. v. R.B.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

CONLEY, J.A.D.

This appeal arises from the trial judge’s exercise of his discretion to decline original jurisdiction over the parties’ custody dispute concerning their four-year-old child in favor of the exercise of original jurisdiction by the Virginia courts. We affirm.

Although complicated to some extent by an investigation in Virginia of a claim of sexual abuse involving the child and her mother and the mother’s recently disclosed lesbianism, the critical jurisdictional facts are not difficult. The parties were married in New York in 1987. They moved…