A family court judge wrongly dismissed a child custody claim before determining whether the child’s home state was here or in Pakistan, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The Appellate Division held, in Sajjad v. Cheema, A-4949-10, that the judge should have conducted a thorough hearing, rather than merely deferring to a previously filed, ongoing Pakistani proceeding, the judges held.
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