Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0129

Enacting the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (1997)"
ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS Defining certain terms and providing for
application, for the effect of court determinations, for the priority of certain
questions, for notice to persons outside the state, for personal jurisdiction
and limited immunity, for communication and cooperation between courts, for the
taking of testimony in other states and for the preservation of records ARTICLE
2 - JURISDICTION Providing for initial, exclusive, continuing and temporary
emergency child custody jurisdiction and for jurisdiction to modify
determinations made by out of state courts; providing for notice, opportunity to
be heard, joinder obligation and intervention rights; regulating simultaneous
proceedings; providing for court declination of jurisdiction under certain
conditions; specifying the information required to be submitted to court and
providing for court issuance of appearance orders ARTICLE 3 - ENFORCEMENT
Specifying the duty of the court to recognize and enforce child custody
determinations of other states and providing for enforcement of orders to return
the child under the Hague convention on the civil aspects of international child
abduction; authorizing courts without jurisdiction to modify custody
determinations to issue temporary visitation orders under certain conditions;
providing for registration of child custody determinations issued by other
states and for enforcement of registered determinations; specifying certain
communication requirements relating to simultaneous proceedings; providing for
expedited enforcement of custody determinations under certain conditions;
requiring and providing for service of petition and order; providing for
immediate physical custody under certain conditions, for the granting of certain
relief and for petitioner application for issuance of a warrant to take physical
custody of the child; authorizing appeal; specifying the role of prosecutors and
law enforcement officers; repealing the uniform child custody jurisdiction act;
specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes
(rla)