Thomas v. Thomas

This is an appeal from an order of the Knox County District Court declining jurisdiction in a child custody dispute and enforcing a visitation agreement from the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Court.

Gail Thomas and the appellant, Gary Lee Thomas, were married in Yankton, South Dakota, in 1980. On July 22,1986, a petition for dissolution of marriage was filed in the Knox County District Court. The petition alleged that three minor children were born of the marriage and that the children had lived in Bloomfield, Nebraska, during the preceding 5 years, although two of the children were living in…