{"id":2816,"date":"2024-02-25T19:51:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T01:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2024-03-28T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:12:54","slug":"texas-court-cannot-consider-extrinsic-evidence-in-collateral-attack-on-custody-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-cannot-consider-extrinsic-evidence-in-collateral-attack-on-custody-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Court Cannot Consider Extrinsic Evidence in Collateral Attack on Custody Jurisdiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (\u201cUCCJEA\u201d), codified in Chapter 152 of the Texas Family Code addresses how to determine jurisdiction in custody matters involving more than one state.\u00a0 Generally, a Texas trial court that made a custody determination consistent with \u00a7 152.201 or 152.203 retains continuing jurisdiction until a court makes certain determinations regarding a lack of significant connection to the state or residence.\u00a0 Tex. 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Code \u00a7 152.202.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/fifth-court-of-appeals\/2024-05-22-01362-cv.pdf?ts=1706265215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent case<\/a>, a mother appealed following a modification, arguing the trial court had not acquired custody jurisdiction in the original divorce case because Colorado had subject-matter jurisdiction over the children pursuant to the UCCJEA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procedural History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the appeals court\u2019s opinion, the trial court entered an agreed final divorce decree in 2017 that named the parents joint managing conservators of their two children.\u00a0 The mother was awarded the exclusive right to designate the children\u2019s primary residence until they turned twelve, with no geographic limitations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-cannot-consider-extrinsic-evidence-in-collateral-attack-on-custody-jurisdiction\/#more-2816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (\u201cUCCJEA\u201d), codified in Chapter 152 of the Texas Family Code addresses how to determine jurisdiction in custody matters involving more than one state.\u00a0 Generally, a Texas trial court that made a custody determination consistent with \u00a7 152.201 or 152.203 retains continuing jurisdiction until a court makes certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-custody","category-uniform-child-custody-and-enforcement-act-uccjea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texas Court Cannot Consider Extrinsic Evidence in Collateral Attack on Custody Jurisdiction &#8212; 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