CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Interstate Custody/UCCJEA
......Jurisdictional Issues
.........Jurisdictional Bases
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Jurisdictional bases for a Calif. Court making a custody determination.

Where no jurisdictional competition or conflict, juvenile court properly exercised emergency jurisdiction and CA was proper forum under UCCJEA when it declared C dependent and removed him from parental custody.

Trial court erred in finding it had no UCCJEA jurisdiction where W and C had significant connection with CA and substantial evidence available here concerning C's care, protection, etc. [FC 3421 (a)(2).]

Mex. had SMJ under UCCJEA where Mex. was C's home state, and she was temporarily absent only for medical treatment; jurisdiction not conferred on Cal. court and there was no basis for temp. emergency jurisdiction.