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Abstract
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws has approved and recommended for enactment in all the states a Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act. This Act is designed to alleviate the plight of "interstate children" an apt phrase coined by Professor Ehrenzweig and descriptive of the rootlessness of children shifted from state to state--who are the victims of custody battles often fought in the courts of more than one state or a state and a foreign country. In this article, Mrs. Bodenheimer, Reporter for the Special Committee which drafted the Act, describes the social and legal causes of the problem and explains the essential features of the Uniform Act. The full text of the Act is printed as an appendix to this article.
Recommended Citation
Brigitte M. Bodenheimer,
The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act: A Legislative Remedy for Children Caught in the Conflict of Laws,
22 Vanderbilt Law Review
1207
(1969)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol22/iss6/1