Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction & Enforcement Act Process and Procedures in Texas

  The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act has some provisions to ensure uniformity and to encourage parties to participate in the child custody proceedings. The first is that priority is to be given to cases which have been identified as UCCJEA cases. If a question or existence or exercise of jurisdiction under the…

Exclusive Continuing Jurisdiction in the Uniform Child Custody & Jurisdiction Act

Exclusive continuing jurisdiction under the uniform child custody and jurisdiction and enforcement act. When you have a court who has made an initial child custody determination the court retains exclusive continuing jurisdiction, but may lose exclusive continuing jurisdiction based on a objective set of facts which the court would examine in determining that that court…