Fenner v. Bassett

NESBETT, Chief Justice.

A California divorce decree awarded custody of the children of the parties herein to appellee with the reasonable right of visitation in appellant. Without the permission of the California court or of the appellee, appellant removed the children from California to Alaska and immediately filed suit in Alaska to obtain custody. The principal question raised on appeal is whether the trial court erred in refusing to assume jurisdiction of the custody suit.

The pertinent facts are that appellee, as plaintiff in a divorce action commenced in California, obtained an…