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MEADE v. MEADE

No. 86-1574.

812 F.2d 1473 (1987)

Ann C. MEADE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frank O. MEADE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Hayes Hofler, III (Pulley, Watson, King & Hofler, P.A., Durham, N.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Susan Hollingsworth Lewis (Lewis & Associates, Chapel Hill, N.C., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, Terrence W. BOYLE, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This case involves conflicting child custody orders entered by the states of Virginia and North Carolina. The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina applied the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980, 28 U.S.C. § 1738A (PKPA), designed by Congress expressly to resolve such conflicts, and concluded that the Virginia order was entitled to enforcement by the courts of North Carolina under...

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