Case ID: so2d_512/html/0852-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Teresa Lynn Woods BEESON v. John W. BEESON.
    No. 87-CC-1975.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 25, 1987.
   IN RE: Beeson, Teresa Lynn Woods; Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs; to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Number CW87 1072; Parish of East Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Family Court Div. “A” Number 78,943.

Writ granted. The judgment of the Court of Appeal is reversed and set aside. This matter is remanded to the Family Court for further proceedings.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. The juvenile judge exercised jurisdiction without conducting an evidentiary hearing on the issue and without following the procedures of La.R.S. 13:1701 et seq. Before proceeding further, the juvenile judge should conduct an evidentiary hearing and determine whether to exercise jurisdiction. See La.R.S. 13:1713(A) and McGough & Hughes, Charted Territory: The Louisiana Experience with the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, 44 La.L.Rev. 19, 44 (1983).