Court Opinion

ID: 9623412
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:32:35.228663+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:29.325184
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Fletcher, Presiding Justice,
concurring.
I fully concur with the majority’s opinion. I write separately to remind the bench and bar that the Parental Kidnapping Prevention *223Act1 provides the jurisdictional criteria to be followed in interstate custody disputes.2 A court must first satisfy the jurisdictional criteria of the PKPA before analyzing jurisdiction under its own state’s law. Although the Court of Appeals analyzed the jurisdiction of the Georgia court only under Georgia’s Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act,3 an analysis under the PKPA renders the same result under these circumstances.
Decided February 12, 1996.
Peevy & Lancaster, Donn M. Peevy, for appellant.
Washburn & Washburn, Margaret G. Washburn, for appellee.
Lawler & Tanner, Nancy F. Lawler, Warner, Mayoue & Bates, Alvah 0. Smith, amici curiae.

 28 USC § 1738A.

 Wilson v. Gouse, 263 Ga. 887, 889-890 (441 SE2d 57) (1994).

 Dyer v. Surratt, 216 Ga. App. 876 (456 SE2d 510) (1995).