People ex rel. Wilson v. Lawrence

In Armstrong v. Grimes (70 Misc 2d 549) this court, faced with a Texas decree of custody and the question of modification thereof, held that, absent jurisdiction over custody either by referral from a court of competent jurisdiction or directly conferred by statute, this court’s power to modify an out-of-State custody decree would derive strictly from section 654 of the Family Court Act and would of necessity depend on that State’s power to modify its own decree. (Citing Halvey v. Halvey, 330 U. S. 610.) In that matter, the court dismissed a petition based upon the most clear-cut possible…