Case ID: so2d_496/html/1031-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DIXON, C.J., LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Susan Fautt DUPEPE v. F. Clancy DUPEPE.
    No. 86-CC-1981.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Nov. 14, 1986.
   In re Dupepe, F. Clancy; Applying for Writ of Certiorari and/or Review; Parish of Orleans Civil District Court Div. “L” Number 83-03109; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number C-6242.

Denied. The result is correct.

DIXON, C.J.,

concurs in the denial. Although the Louisiana courts have jurisdiction and cannot decline it, it does not appear that a cause of action to change custody exists.

LEMMON, J.,

dissents. The court that granted the original decree can retain exclusive continuing jurisdiction over modification proceedings under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, even if the child and one parent have moved to another state which has become the home state. R. Casad, Jurisdiction in Civil Actions § 9.02(5)(c) (1986 supp.). La.R.S. 13:1713 (and its counterpart in New Mexico) prohibits a home state from modifying another state’s decree when that state continues to have jurisdiction under the Act, unless that state expressly declines jurisdiction. Here, Section 1713’s counterpart prohibits New Mexico from modifying the Louisiana court’s decree because Louisiana has continuing jurisdiction and the Louisiana judge has never made a considered determination expressly declining to exercise the jurisdiction clearly vested in his court.

CALOGERO, J., would grant the writ.