Powell v. Stover

This is an initial child-custody case in which both Texas and Tennessee claim jurisdiction. We must decide whether Texas is the child’s “home state” for purposes of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), and thus whether the Texas trial court properly assumed jurisdiction over the case. We hold that, because the child lived in Tennessee with his parents for at least six consecutive months immediately before the child-custody proceeding was commenced, Texas is not the child’s home state and the trial court’s exei'cise of jurisdiction was improper. Accordingly, we…