Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-07-15 19:24:41.378813+00
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 1         IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO

 2 GERALDINE PEREA,

 3          Petitioner-Appellant,

 4 v.                                                                    NO. 34,348

 5 ROMAN A. PAULINO,

 6          Respondent-Appellee.

 7 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BERNALILLO COUNTY
 8 Deborah Davis Walker, District Judge

 9   Enlace Comunitario
10   Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
11   Delilah Tenorio
12   Julia White
13   Linda K. Wilson
14   Albuquerque, NM

15 for Appellant

16                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

17 GARCIA, Judge.

18   {1}    Petitioner appeals an order of the district court establishing North Carolina as

19 the “home state” of the children involved in this custody proceeding. Our calendar
 1 notice proposed to affirm on the basis that the district court correctly applied the

 2 Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, NMSA 1978, §§ 40-10A-

 3 101 to -403 (2001) (the “UCCJEA”). Petitioner has filed a memorandum in opposition

 4 to that proposed summary judgment. Having duly considered that memorandum, we

 5 now affirm.

 6   {2}   Petitioner’s memorandum in opposition continues to argue that the district court

 7 should have considered evidence related to Sections 40-10A-207 and -208 and

 8 improperly deferred to the judgment of the North Carolina court in which Respondent

 9 had filed parallel proceedings with regard to that issue. [MIO 4-7] Petitioner’s

10 memorandum in opposition does not address the basis of this Court’s proposed

11 disposition, which is that the issues Petitioner would like to raise may be properly

12 determined, under the UCCJEA, only by a court of the children’s home state. [CN 4]

13 Thus, it is not possible to interpret the UCCJEA to require or allow consideration of

14 those issues as part of the determining which state is the home state of the children

15 involved.

16   {3}   When an appeal is assigned to the summary calendar, “the burden is on the

17 party opposing the proposed disposition to clearly point out errors in fact or law.”

18 Hennessy v. Duryea, 1998-NMCA-036, ¶ 24, 124 N.M. 754, 955 P.2d 683.

19 Petitioner’s memorandum in opposition does not point out any factual or legal error

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 1 in the calendar notice. Petitioner offers no support for the proposition that Sections

 2 207 and 208 can be decided by any court outside the children’s home state and makes

 3 no attempt to explain how matters to be decided by a court of the children’s home

 4 state could be addressed before determining which state that is. Instead, Petitioner

 5 repeats her assertion that the district court should have considered that evidence

 6 because Sections 207 and 208 allow that evidence to be considered. [MIO 4-6]

 7 Petitioner’s memorandum in opposition does not address the basis of this Court’s

 8 proposed disposition and we are unpersuaded that the notice contains error.

 9   {4}   Consequently, for the reasons stated in this Court’s notice of proposed

10 disposition, we affirm the district court’s order determining that the children’s home

11 state is North Carolina.

12   {5}   IT IS SO ORDERED.

13                                               ________________________________
14                                               TIMOTHY L. GARCIA, Judge

15 WE CONCUR:

16 _______________________________
17 MICHAEL E. VIGIL, Chief Judge

18 _______________________________

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1 JAMES J. WECHSLER, Judge

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