Schoeberlein v. Rohlfing

OPINION

RANDALL, Judge.

Respondent, Jeanee Rohlfing, was awarded custody of the parties’ two chil dren in a Florida divorce decree after a summer visitation. Appellant, Werner Schoeberlein, petitioned the Minnesota district court to grant him custody of the children, claiming that an emergency existed. Respondent, a Florida resident, appeared through her attorney only to contest jurisdiction. The trial court dismissed appellant’s petition for lack of jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, Minn.Stat. § 518A (1984) but later granted a temporary restraining order…