JOSELIT v. JOSELIT


375 Pa.Super. 203 (1988)

544 A.2d 59

Stuart Menachem JOSELIT, Appellant, v. Susan Pearl JOSELIT, Appellee.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed June 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Momjian, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Michael J. Barrett, Scranton, for appellee.

Before ROWLEY, WIEAND and MONTEMURO, JJ.


WIEAND, Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion by refusing to exercise its jurisdiction to hear a custody dispute, notwithstanding the presence of the child in Pennsylvania, which is also the home state of the child, in deference to the courts of New York, where the child's mother now resides and where the child was temporarily hospitalized for sophisticated treatment.

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