CARE AND PROTECTION OF VIVIAN


420 Mass. 879 (1995)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF VIVIAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 26, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosemary S. Gale, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the father.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

A single justice of this court has reported to the full court the question whether, in light of the Federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), 28 U.S.C. § 1738A (1988), a Massachusetts court may properly consider and decide a nonemergency care and protection proceeding when custody proceedings concerning the child are pending in another State that has jurisdiction over the child custody question. We answer that, on the facts of the case, a...

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