Sentences with phrase «controversies over custody»

Regardless of whether a state has adopted the UCCJEA or retains the UCCJA, both the UCCJEA and the UCCJA are intended, among other things, to avoid jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other states in matters of child custody, to discourage continuing controversies over custody, and to deter abductions and other unilateral removals of children undertaken to obtain custody awards.

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Across the country, controversy is escalating over what happens to undocumented children after they're taken into custody.

Last year's budget was adopted in late June, just weeks before Mr. de Blasio was embroiled in controversy over his relationship with law enforcement following the death of Eric Garner in NYPD custody on Staten Island.