Legal Opinion

Zaid Safdar v. Donya Aziz

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided March 27, 2018No. 156611PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Per curiam

**215 At issue in this case is whether a circuit court has jurisdiction to consider a motion to change the domicile of a minor child established by a custody award in a divorce judgment while that underlying judgment is pending on appeal. To answer that question, we must determine whether MCL 722.27(1)(c) -a provision of the Child Custody Act (CCA), MCL 722.21 et seq ., governing circuit courts' powers to resolve custody disputes-falls under an exception to the rule in MCR 7.208(A) that a trial court may not amend a final judgment after a claim of appeal has been filed or leave to appeal has…

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