Opinion ID: 2632240
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Heading: Parental Kidnaping Protection Act

Text: ¶ 49 The federal Parental Kidnaping Protection Act of 1980 (PKPA), codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, is inapplicable to the instant case. The express purpose of the Act is, to provide for nationwide enforcement of custody orders made in accordance with the terms of the UCCJA. Matter of Henry, 326 Or. 166, 169-170, 951 P.2d 135, 137 (1997)(quoting Thompson v. Thompson, 484 U.S. 174, 108 S.Ct. 513, 98 L.Ed.2d 512, 56 USLW 4055 (1988)). The PKPA forces states to give full faith and credit to the custody decrees of sister states and no custody decree of a sister state exists in the case at bar.