Serna v. Salazar

OPINION

PAYNE, Justice.

This appeal follows a New Mexico trial court order which declined jurisdiction to modify visitation rights in a California divorce decree. We find that under the New Mexico Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, §§ 40-10-1 through 40-10-24, N.M.S. A.1978 (Cum.Supp.1982) (UCCJA), the New Mexico court had jurisdiction. We therefore reverse.

The parties were divorced in California in 1977. The divorce decree awarded the custody of the two minor children to the mother and gave the father reasonable visitation rights. The mother and children moved to New Mexico in 1978,…