Section 75 Significant-Connection State

• Library: Trust and Estate Legislation 2012

A court of a significant-connection state may assume jurisdiction in two situations:

(a) The respondent does not have a home state or a court of the respondent's home state has declined to exercise jurisdiction because this state is a more appropriate forum; or

(b) The respondent has a home state, a petition for an appointment or order is not pending in a court of that state or another significant-connection state, and, before the court makes the appointment or issues the order:

a. A petition...