CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Interstate Custody/UCCJA
......Jurisdiction: Concurrent
.........Resolution of Concurrent Juris.
............First Action Filed Or Served
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First filed action which has become void (due to death of a party) will not defeat jurisdiction in another state.

Temporal priority of Mich. action and Mich. ct.'s determination of jurisdiction did not deprive Cal. family ct. of jurisdiction re child custody.

When two states have concurrent jurisdiction and cannot agree on which will exercise, state with first filed action prevails.