Friedman v. Eighth Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Clark

OPINION

By the Court,

Pickering, J.:

This interstate child custody dispute traces back to a stipulated Nevada divorce decree. The decree incorporated the parents’ agreement that Nevada would have exclusive jurisdiction over future child custody disputes. When such a dispute arose, the mother returned to the Nevada decree court to resolve it. By then, both parents and their children had moved to California. With everyone gone from Nevada, the father maintains that Nevada lacks subject matter jurisdiction. He has initiated competing custody proceedings in California.

The question presented is…