Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al.
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Where may a family court take jurisdiction over a child custody case
QUESTIONS PRESENTED ; . 1. Where the questions of the custody of a child , have been decided by the Supreme Court of New York State, when may a family court of a county in Virginia take jurisdiction over a case and award custody of the child to unrelated third parties? 2. Where the Virginia Supreme Court has disqualoo ified a judge from hearing the case and the judge hears ; and purports to decide the case anyway what is the ; legal effect of the judges orders? . 8. Where a child has been kidnapped from a , foreign country and brought into the jurisdiction, and ; ; ; a Virginia judge was directly involved in the kidnapping of the child, is the judge immune from suit and may the judge award the child to unrelated third partied. ; oO 4. Where as here the Amherst County Common-__. wealth Attorney has decided that the courts of Virginia : : : have no jurisdiction over the matter of the custody of a child, and has dismissed the proceedings brought in that county, may a Lynchburg judge take juris. diction over the child and award it to unrelated third parties? , 5. Where both of the parents of a child are ; devoted followers of the religion of Islam may a Virginia court order that the child be enrolled in a Christian church and school for the purpose of changing the religious beliefs of the child? 6. Where the parents of the child object to enrolling the child in a Christian religious school and rather insist that the child attend general public school and the wishes of the parents are ignored what is the ; ; legal effect of the education of the child? 7. Where as here the child has only attended ; schools affiliated with Jerry Falwell and those schools — . are not recognized by the Virginia Department of ‘Education, is a diploma issued by those schools legally valid and may the child attend higher education? iii a