Heyward v. Heyward

SCHEB, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellant, Richard F. Heyward (father), challenges the trial court’s order that it had jurisdiction over him and the parties’ minor female child for the purpose of determining the primary residence of the child and the father’s visitation rights. We reverse.

The parties were married in 1967 and their child was born in 1981. In 1983 the father filed for divorce in New York, where the parties and their child resided. On September 3, 1986, the New York court entered a judgment of divorce which granted the mother permanent custody of the minor child and gave the father…