SUBCHAPTER A - GENERAL PROVISIONS
§5301. Declaration of policy.
§5302. Definitions.
§5303. Award of custody, partial custody or visitation.
§5304. Award of shared custody.
§5305. Counseling.
§5306. Plan for implementation of custody order.
§5307. Denial of custody under agreement or plan.
§5308. Removal of party or child from jurisdiction.
§5309. Access to records and information.
§5310. Modification of existing custody orders.
§5311. When parent deceased.
§5312. When parents' marriage is dissolved or parents are separated.
§5313. When child has resided with grandparents.
§5314. Exception for adopted children.SUBCHAPTER B - CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION
§5341. Short title of subchapter.
§5342. Purposes and construction of subchapter.
§5343. Definitions.
§5344. Jurisdiction.
§5345. Notice and opportunity to be heard.
§5346. Notice to persons outside this Commonwealth; submission to jurisdiction.
§5347. Simultaneous proceedings in other states.
§5348. Inconvenient forum.
§5349. Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct.
§5350. Information under oath to be submitted to the court.
§5351. Additional parties.
§5352. Appearance of parties and the child.
§5353. Binding force and res judicata effect of custody decree.
§5354. Recognition of out-of-State custody decrees.
§5355. Modification of custody decree of another state.
§5356. Filing and enforcement of custody decree of another state.
§5357. Registry of out-of-State custody decrees and proceedings.
§5358. Certified copies of custody decree.
§5359. Taking testimony in another state.
§5360. Hearings and studies in another state; orders to appear.
§5361. Assistance to courts of other states.
§5362. Preservation of documents for use in other states.
§5363. Request for court records of another state.
§5364. Intrastate application.
§5365. International application.
§5366. Priority.
(See, also, the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure #1915.1 through 1915.18 relating to actions for custody, partial custody and visitation of minor children.)
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