Court Opinion

ID: 9714765
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:45:05.144404+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:28.384542
License: Public Domain

GARRARD, Judge,
concurring in result.
I concur in the result reached by the majority. I write separately to stress that this was most probably a needless appeal wasting the resources of both the court and the litigants.
The UCCJA specifically, permits a court with potential jurisdiction in cases such as this to decline to exercise that jurisdiction on the ground that another state is more appropriate. IC 31-1-11.6-8(a)(4), IC 81-1-11.6-6; IC 31-1-11.6-7.
Thus, either at the request of an interested party or by sua sponte action of the Indiana trial court, this question should have been brought to the attention of the Wisconsin court and a resolution effected.