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MATTER OF B.B.R.

No. 88-529.

566 A.2d 1032 (1989)

In the Matter of B.B.R. Appeal of M.R.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 2, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Fennell, with whom Frank B. Stilwell III, Washington, D.C., and Mary Woodson Poag, Dallas, Tex., were on the briefs, for Marita Rogers, appellant.

Steven M. Schneebaum, with whom Judith Bartnoff and Daniel M. Flores, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for Alan and Kathy Platt, appellees.

Before STEADMAN, SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

The issue in this case is whether the courts of the District of Columbia or of California are to determine the future of a four-year-old boy born of a mother in California but who has resided since he was two days old with a married couple in the District, despite the California mother's repeated calls for his return to her. Couched in the language of the law, the issue we must decide is whether the District of Columbia courts have jurisdiction...

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