SAAVEDRA v. SCHMIDT

Nos. 03-01-00638-CV, 03-01-00639-CV.

96 S.W.3d 533 (2002)

Manuel E. SAAVEDRA, Appellant, v. Debra Kay SCHMIDT, Appellee, and Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin.

October 31, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Craig Lusk, Lusk & Evans, Austin, for Manuel E. Saavedra.

Bristol C. Myers, Austin, for Schmidt.

Richel Rivers, Rachel L. Noffke, Hilgers & Watkins, Austin, for Children.

Shelley A. Scott, Ann Forman, Asst. Dist. Attys., Austin, for Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.

Before Justices KIDD, B.A. SMITH and YEAKEL.


BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

This jurisdictional dispute between two sister state courts over a custody determination falls squarely within the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (the UCCJEA).1 See Tex. Fam. Code Ann. §§ 152.001-.317 (West 2002). Custody proceedings were initiated in the superior court of California, San Joaquin County (the California court) in...

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