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| Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (1968) creates guidelines to avoid jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other states in matters of child custody, promote cooperation with the courts of other states, and facilitate the enforcement of custody decrees of other states |
| Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (1974) has been amended numerous times; however, the overall purposes remain the same, including to provide technical assistance to public and private nonprofit juvenile-justice and delinquency-prevention programs, establish training programs for persons who work with delinquents or potential delinquents or whose work or activities relate to juvenile-delinquency programs, establish a federal assistance program to deal with the problems of runaway and homeless youth, and assist states and local communities to prevent youth from entering the justice system. |
| National Child Search Assistance Act The National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990 requires each federal, state, and local law-enforcement agency to enter information about missing children younger than the age of 18 into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.2 The Act also establishes state reporting requirements. |
| Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act 28 USC Sec. 1738A The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (1980) assures that full faith and credit is given to child-custody determinations. States may honor and enforce custody determinations made in other states as long as certain requirements listed by the Act are satisfied. |
| Missing Children's Assistance Act The Missing Children's Assistance Act (1984) directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to establish and operate a national toll-free telephone line for missing children and a national resource center and clearinghouse. |
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| Missing Children Act The Missing Children Act (1982) authorizes the Attorney General to collect and exchange information that would assist in the identification of unidentified deceased individuals and the location of missing persons, including missing children. |
| Hague Convention On the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction The Hague Convention On the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980) establishes procedures to ensure the prompt return of children wrongfully removed to or retained in a country other than that of their habitual residence. |
| International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act The International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993 makes it a federal crime to remove a child from the United States or retain a child, who has been in the United States, outside the United States with the intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. |
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