Gruber v. Gruber

This case is a custody dispute involving an appeal from an interlocutory order entered in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in which the court ruled that it had jurisdiction to determine the custody of the parties’ minor child. The court found that Maryland was the child’s home state and the most convenient forum to decide the custody issue. Prior to this ruling, a court in Tennessee ruled that Tennessee was the child’s home state and the most convenient forum to determine the custody issue. . The Court of Special Appeals held that the Circuit Court in Maryland erred in assuming…