S.W. v. DUNCAN

No. 94,358.

24 P.3d 846 (2001)

2001 OK 39

S.W., D.W. and D.W. Petitioners, v. The Honorable Jacqueline DUNCAN, Judge of the District Court of Custer County, Respondent, and S.R.G. and T.G., Real Parties In Interest.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

May 8, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Eileen Echols, C. Thomas Kite, David W. Echols and Associates, Oklahoma City, OK, for Petitioners.

Douglas Loudenback, Loudenback Associates, Oklahoma City, OK, for Real Parties in Interest.


SUMMERS, J.

¶ 1 Here we have a child custody dispute between a divorced father and the family of the divorced, but now deceased mother. The primary questions are whether the state which granted the divorce, Oklahoma, retains child custody jurisdiction after the death of the custodial parent, and whether the Oklahoma modification proceeding properly continued to exercise jurisdiction although a simultaneous Kansas modification...

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