A court of this State shall treat a foreign country as it if were a state of the United States for the purpose of applying this article if its child-custody determination was made under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this article and if the child custody laws of that foreign country do not violate fundamental principles of human rights. HISTORY: 2024 Act No. 195 (H.3220), Section 3, eff May 21, 2024.
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