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CUSTODY OF A MINOR (NO. 3)

392 Mass. 728 (1984)

468 N.E.2d 251

CUSTODY OF A MINOR (NO. 3).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence G. Green (Elizabeth A. Zeldin with him) for the minor.

David M. Wright for the mother.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & NOLAN, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

This case presents the question whether the courts of this Commonwealth should defer to a determination of a court in Australia concerning the custody of a minor child, an Australian citizen, now in the Commonwealth with his mother, but purportedly subject to custody orders of the Family Court of Australia. This issue concerns G.L.c. 209B, the Massachusetts Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, enacted in 1983 (St...

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