Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA)
I want to talk to you about child custody jurisdiction. This has come up for me a couple times actually in the last week and it's a kind of an important topic. If you haven’t heard of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act you need to learn about it. It is also known in the legal world as UCCJEA. It's an act that governs jurisdiction of child custody disputes and as I understand it all states except for one state subscribe to the UCCJEA.
This is actually something I just learned a couple of days ago because I was consulting with one of my Command the Courtroom viewers who happens to have a case in Arizona. She lives in Boston but the case was originated in Arizona and apparently Massachusetts does not subscribe to the UCCJEA. The UCCJEA governs how jurisdiction is established and generally speaking in order for jurisdiction to be established in a place you and your children notably actually...
