Waldron v. Waldron
Annotate this CaseWhen Mother and Father were divorced Mother was granted primary physical custody of the parties’ child. Mother later moved to Pennsylvania where she commenced proceedings seeking to terminate Father’s parental rights. Thereafter, Father asked the Wyoming court to enter orders to facilitate the exercise of his visitation rights. The district court in Sweetwater County declined to exercise jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, concluding that Pennsylvania was a more appropriate place for the parties to litigate all issues. Father did not appeal from the order declining jurisdiction but instead objected to the order. The court denied the objection. Father subsequently appealed from the order ruling on his objection. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding (1) Father’s objection was in substance a motion to reconsider the order declining to exercise jurisdiction, and such a motion does not toll the time for taking an appeal; and (2) the only notice of appeal Father filed was untimely.
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