Gary McDougald Cross-Appellant v. Vivian L. Jenson, Cross-Appellee, Clarence Ehli, Cross-Appellee

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · Decided 1986-04-21

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HILL, Circuit Judge: This case arises out of the entry of conflicting child custody decrees by the Florida and Washington state courts. In 1980 Congress enacted the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (hereinafter “the PKPA”), P.L. 96-611, 94 Stat. 3566 , codified at 28 U.S.C. § 178A (1982), in an attempt to provide at least a limited federal response to the serious social and legal prob…

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