CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Proceedings Controlled by UCCJA [UCCJEA]
.........Juvenile Court
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Dependency jurisdiction properly terminated where minor could not show undisputed facts that the juvenile ct. erred as a matter of law.

Where NV court declined to exercise jurisdiction over children finding CA was the more appropriate forum, CA court had subject matter jurisdiction over dependency case; declination of jurisdiction upheld without findings.

Mexican judicial authorities' failure to respond to juvenile ct.'s e-mails amounted to declination of jurisdiction over dependency matter; Mother's and Cs' CA connections and evidence of Cs' care in CA supported jurisdiction.

As evidence established mother and Cs living in CA at commencement of dependency proceeding, NE was not their "home state" under UCCJEA and CA court had subject matter jurisdiction to terminate her parental rights.

Mother whose children placed with grandfather in Mexico did not show that foreign placements of dependent children is contrary to the interests of juvenile dependency law.

Juvenile court lacked jurisdiction to make custody determinations re missing child possibly in another state; record did not demonstrate jurisdiction to make nonemergency custody orders under UCCJEA.

UCCJA governs subject matter jurisdiction in juvenile court dependency proceeding.