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Closing The Custody Floodgate: Florida Adopts The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, Barry Kutun, Roberta Fox Apr 1978

Closing The Custody Floodgate: Florida Adopts The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, Barry Kutun, Roberta Fox

Florida State University Law Review

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Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, Emily M. Trapnell Jan 1978

Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, Emily M. Trapnell

University of Richmond Law Review

A significant piece of legislation, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, introduced for the second time in 1978, has been held over for consideration by the 1979 General Assembly. Passed by the Senate in 1977, the bill implementing the Act was killed in the House that year because, according to the bill's patron, Senator Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr., the short session in 1977 failed to provide sufficient time for House members to study the legislation. But Senator Gartlan is optimistic about the bill's chances in 1979 and this Comment proposes not only to explicate the major provisions of the Act …