Baumgartner v. Baumgartner

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

This petition raises the question of whether an Alaska Superior Court, which renders the original marriage dissolution decree, retains jurisdiction to modify child custody when the non-custodial parent continues to reside in the state, but the custodial parent and children have lived outside the state for the past four years. More specifically, the issue is whether the court’s jurisdiction is limited by the terms of AS 25.30.020, the jurisdictional section of Alaska’s version of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, AS 25.30.010-910 (“UCCJA”). 1

II. FACTS AND…