SOUZA v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. H003092.

193 Cal.App.3d 1304 (1987)

238 Cal. Rptr. 892

JEFFREY ALLEN SOUZA, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Respondent; KEITH BRISTOW, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

July 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edwin A. Frey for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Clarke M. Dixon-Moses for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

BRAUER, J.

This case presents a conflict between lawsuits determining custody: the stepparent adoption brought by the mother and her husband in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court, and the action to establish visitation and custodial rights brought by the father in a Hawaiian court. The Hawaiian court was the first tribunal to make custody determinations regarding the child, the parties' five-year-old daughter Janel. The...

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