Source: http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1738A&num=0&edition=prelim
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 16:46:12+00:00

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(a) The appropriate authorities of every State shall enforce according to its terms, and shall not modify except as provided in subsections (f), (g), and (h) of this section, any custody determination or visitation determination made consistently with the provisions of this section by a court of another State.
(9) "visitation determination" means a judgment, decree, or other order of a court providing for the visitation of a child and includes permanent and temporary orders and initial orders and modifications.
(d) The jurisdiction of a court of a State which has made a child custody or visitation determination consistently with the provisions of this section continues as long as the requirement of subsection (c)(1) of this section continues to be met and such State remains the residence of the child or of any contestant.
(e) Before a child custody or visitation determination is made, reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard shall be given to the contestants, any parent whose parental rights have not been previously terminated and any person who has physical custody of a child.
(g) A court of a State shall not exercise jurisdiction in any proceeding for a custody or visitation determination commenced during the pendency of a proceeding in a court of another State where such court of that other State is exercising jurisdiction consistently with the provisions of this section to make a custody or visitation determination.
(h) A court of a State may not modify a visitation determination made by a court of another State unless the court of the other State no longer has jurisdiction to modify such determination or has declined to exercise jurisdiction to modify such determination.
2000-Subsec. (c)(2)(C)(ii). Pub. L. 106–386 substituted "the child, a sibling, or parent of the child" for "he".
1998-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(a), substituted "subsections (f), (g), and (h) of this section, any custody determination or visitation determination" for "subsection (f) of this section, any child custody determination".
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(b), inserted "or grandparent" after "parent".
Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(c), struck out "or visitation" after "for the custody".
Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(d), substituted "custody or visitation determination" for "custody determination" in two places.
Subsec. (b)(9). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(e), added par. (9).
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(f), substituted "custody or visitation determination" for "custody determination" in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (c)(2)(D)(i). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(g), inserted "or visitation" after "determine the custody".
Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(h), (i), substituted "custody or visitation determination" for "custody determination".
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(j), which directed substitution of "custody or visitation determination" for "custody determination", was executed by making the substitution in two places to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 105–374, §1(k), added subsec. (h).
"(2) submit to Congress a report describing the results of that study, including the effects of implementing or applying model State laws, and the recommendations of the Attorney General to reduce the incidence or pattern of violence against women or of sexual assault of the child.
"(b) Sufficiency of Defenses.-In carrying out subsection (a) with respect to the Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act of 1980 and the amendments made by that Act, the Attorney General shall examine the sufficiency of defenses to parental abduction charges available in cases involving domestic violence, and the burdens and risks encountered by victims of domestic violence arising from jurisdictional requirements of that Act and the amendments made by that Act.
"(c) Authorization of Appropriations.-There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $200,000 for fiscal year 2001."
"(4) among the results of those conditions and activities are the failure of the courts of such jurisdictions to give full faith and credit to the judicial proceedings of the other jurisdictions, the deprivation of rights of liberty and property without due process of law, burdens on commerce among such jurisdictions and with foreign nations, and harm to the welfare of children and their parents and other custodians.
"(b) For those reasons it is necessary to establish a national system for locating parents and children who travel from one such jurisdiction to another and are concealed in connection with such disputes, and to establish national standards under which the courts of such jurisdictions will determine their jurisdiction to decide such disputes and the effect to be given by each such jurisdiction to such decisions by the courts of other such jurisdictions.
"(6) deter interstate abductions and other unilateral removals of children undertaken to obtain custody and visitation awards."
"(B) the court determines it is appropriate."

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