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SERNA v. SALAZAR

No. 14134.

651 P.2d 1292 (1982)

98 N.M. 648

Mary SERNA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Clarence Adolph SALAZAR, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

September 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry R. Hill, Alamogordo, for petitioner-appellant.

David I. Rupp, Alamogordo, for defendant-appellee.

OPINION

PAYNE, Justice.

This appeal follows a New Mexico trial court order which declined jurisdiction to modify visitation rights in a California divorce decree. We find that under the New Mexico Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, §§ 40-10-1 through 40-10-24, N.M.S.A. 1978 (Cum.Supp. 1982) (UCCJA), the New Mexico court had jurisdiction. We therefore reverse.

The parties were divorced in California in 1977. The divorce decree awarded...

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