Nadeau v. Nadeau

OPINION

GOLDBERG, Justice.

This ease is before the Court on the petition for certiorari of the defendant, Sharon Nadeau (Sharon). The defendant seeks review of a preliminary decree of the Rhode Island Family Court in which the trial justice determined that even though the Connecticut Superior Court had apparently assumed emergency jurisdiction over the underlying custody and divorce proceedings pursuant to the provisions of the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), as codified in 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, the Rhode Island Family Court was the appropriate forum to assume jurisdiction with respect…