CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Interstate Custody/UCCJA
......Jurisdiction: Bases Under UCCJA
.........Emergency
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Emergency or abandonment will create jurisdiction under UCCJA. [Repealed.]

Cal. juv. ct. properly conducted plenary hearing under UCCJA as to whether emergency existed re allegedly abused M's return to Pa.; court should then have deferred to Pa. court.

Past abuse of M by parents and impossibility of immediately returning her to parents made continuing emergency jurisdiction over her proper under UCCJA.

Allegation of threatened abduction in declaration is sufficient for court to issue valid ex parte custody order based on emergency jurisdiction.

Jurisdiction based on emergency exists only in cases of genuine immediate, substantial, threatened physical harm to child.