Neal v. Superior Court

Opinion

FILES, P. J.

A petition for a writ of mandate raises the question whether, under the circumstances shown, the Los Angeles County Superior Court has jurisdiction to modify an Arkansas child custody decree.

The parties were married in California and lived in this state until January 1976. The child was bom in California on December 4, 1975. In January 1976 the couple moved to Arkansas, where they resided until the marriage ended in divorce on February 8, 1978. The divorce decree, based on a stipulation of the parties, gave custody to the father, with visitation rights in the mother. On…