AmadaSophia Komorebi v. Andrew Katkin

Whether the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, permits a State court to deny home-State priority jurisdiction by treating a minor child’s brief, sponsored visit as “not temporary” based on the visiting parent’s request for child support or temporary emergency public assistance, and then to exercise “significant connection” jurisdiction when the minor child’s home State has not declined jurisdiction.

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits the ex parte removal and continued out-of-State retention of a minor child from a parent found fit, and the entry of a final custody order that provides only non-specific “reasonable visitation” without an enforceable minimum schedule of parent-child contact, effectively delegating the noncustodial parent’s access to the child to the discretion of the opposing party.