Pace v. Pace

This is an appeal from an order permitting the wife to remove the child of the parties from this jurisdiction to Aruba, where the wife now resides. Appellant contends that Florida courts lack jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act to enter such an order, and that it is in contravention of a California court order. We affirm.

In 1982, the wife initiated dissolution proceedings in Broward County. The trial judge temporarily awarded the wife sole custody of the couple’s five year old child, however, the husband disappeared with the child. In the final judgment of…