CopyCited 26 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2005 WL 1751268
...Cohen of Shapiro, Blazi & Wasserman, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellee. PER CURIAM. Appellant, Maria Julieta Sanchez, appeals a final order dismissing with prejudice her action against appellee, Jesus Antonio Fernandez, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, pursuant to section 61.506(1), Florida Statutes (the "UCCJEA")....
CopyCited 15 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 3019578
...§
61.502, Fla. Stat. (2005). The UCCJEA is, therefore, a jurisdictional act which controls custody disputes. It does not deal with priority of dissolution actions. A foreign country is treated as if it were a state of the United States for purposes of this act. §
61.506, Fla....
CopyCited 11 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 5347, 2010 WL 1626410
...nd conflict with courts of other states in matters of child custody." §
61.502(1), Fla. Stat. (2003). Under the UCCJEA, a foreign country is treated "as if it were a state of the United States" for purposes of applying the provisions of the UCCJEA. §
61.506(1), Fla....
CopyCited 8 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2008 Fla. App. LEXIS 19360, 2008 WL 5352144
...person acting as a parent for at least 6 consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding." §
61.503(7), Fla. Stat. (2007). A foreign country is treated as a state of the United States for jurisdiction purposes. §
61.506(1), Fla....
CopyCited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 6234, 2009 WL 1456951
...(2008) (defining "home state" as "the state in which a child lived with a parent ... for at least 6 consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding," and providing that "[a] period of temporary absence of any of the mentioned persons is part of the period"); § 61.506(1), Fla....
CopyCited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 1795, 2009 WL 605401
...One of the stated purposes of the UCCJEA is to "[a]void jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other states in matters of child custody." §
61.502(1). Under the UCCJEA, a foreign country is treated "as if it were a state of the United States" for purposes of applying sections
61.501-.523 of the UCCJEA. §
61.506(1)....
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 8086, 2011 WL 2135575
...connections with the state only if the child’s “home state” has declined to exercise jurisdiction. Arjona v. Torres,
941 So.2d 451, 455 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006). A foreign country is treated as a “state” for purposes of applying the UC-CJEA. See §
61.506(1), Fla....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 13747, 2009 WL 2949381
...f the public policy of Florida, is also unavailing. All parties agree that Jamaican law requires that a custody order consider the best interests of the child. The father argues that the trial court failed to use that standard in its custody decree. Section 61.506(3), Florida Statutes, provides, "A court of this state need not apply this part if the child custody law of a foreign country violates fundamental principles of human rights." We take that to mean that when the foreign law itself fails...
...f applying ss.
61.501-61.523.... [A] child custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this part must be recognized and enforced under ss.
61.524-61.540." §
61.506(1), (2), Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal
...Enforcement Act grants foreign courts jurisdiction “to make an initial child
custody determination” if the foreign jurisdiction is “the home state of the
child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding[.]”
§
61.514(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2022); see also §
61.506, Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal
...Enforcement Act grants foreign courts jurisdiction “to make an initial child
custody determination” if the foreign jurisdiction is “the home state of the
child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding[.]”
§
61.514(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2022); see also §
61.506, Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 5191505
...(2007) (defining "state" for the purposes of chapter 61 as "a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States") and § 61.506(1) (indicating a court "shall treat a foreign country as if it were a state" under certain sections of chapter 61); cf....
