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KELLI RENEE JUDD v. CHRISTOPHER EDELEN
State: Kentucky
Court: Court of Appeals
Docket No: 2003-CA-001486
Case Date: 07/29/2004
Plaintiff: KELLI RENEE JUDD
Defendant: CHRISTOPHER EDELEN
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Commonwealth Of Kentucky
Court of Appeals

NO. 2003-CA-001486-MR

KELLI RENEE JUDD APPELLANT

APPEAL FROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT

v. HONORABLE KELLY MARK EASTON, JUDGE
CIVIL ACTION NO. 02-CI-01310

CHRISTOPHER EDELEN APPELLEE

OPINION
AFFIRMING

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BEFORE: COMBS, Chief Judge; MINTON, AND VANMETER, Judges.
MINTON, Judge. Kelli Renee Judd appeals from an order of the
Hardin Circuit Court that awarded Christopher S. Edelen sole
custody of their infant daughter. Finding no error, we affirm.

Judd and Edelen are the parents of one child, a
daughter, Scotlyn T. Edelen, born out of wedlock on
September 18, 1999, in Pensacola, Florida, when Judd and Edelen
were living there. After the couple broke up, Edelen petitioned

for custody of Scotlyn in the circuit court in Escambia County,

Florida, sometime in early 2000. Initially, the Florida court
designated Judd as the temporary residential parent and gave
Edelen regular visitation. Before custody was resolved,
however, Judd left Florida with the child and moved to Kentucky.
In September 2000, the Florida court made Edelen the primary
residential parent and held Judd in contempt for failing to
allow visitation to Edelen and for failing to appear at a show
cause hearing.

A spate of litigation followed in Kentucky as Judd
filed successive custody petitions and sought domestic violence
protective orders in Taylor Circuit Court, Jefferson Circuit
Court, and Hardin Circuit Court. In each case, Edelen contested
the jurisdiction of the Kentucky courts and responded that the
pending Florida action gave him a superior claim to the child.
Eventually, the Florida action was dismissed for lack of
prosecution. Hardin Circuit Court, being the venue of Judd
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