Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA)
- A federal law that mandates states to check parental compliance with its terms before issuing a custody order, and deny enforcement of custody orders from other states if the parent did not legally have custody
- According to the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act, the court could not make a custody order without ensuring that the parents complied with its terms.
- Despite the custody order from another state, it wasn't enforced due to the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act as the parent did not have legal custody.
- In line with the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act, the state checked for the parents' compliance before making a custody order.
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