State Department’s Annual Report on International Child Abduction – Brazil
Blog The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. Below is our second post in a series here focusing on the nine countries classified as “demonstrating patterns of noncompliance.” Today’s country is Brazil. Country Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Brazil since 2003. In 2018, Brazil demonstrated […]
State Department’s Annual Report on International Child Abduction – Argentina
Blog The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. The Department of State leads the U.S. government’s efforts to prevent and resolve international parental child abductions, as part of the Department’s mission to advance the interests and safety of the American people. The 2019 Annual Report on International Child Abduction illustrates the Department of […]
EXPERT TESTIMONY ON INDIA CHILD CUSTODY LAW
Blog The Federal Circuit Court of Australia has issued a ruling denying a mother’s application for overseas travel from Australia to India to attend her marriage ceremony. The decision was based in large part on my expert testimony concerning the child custody laws of India and the risks of international parental child abduction for a […]
Cite for Morley Kuwait Expert Testimony Case
Blog The citation for the recent Arizona appeal case which accepted me as an expert witness on the laws and practices of Kuwait as to child custody in international matters, and relied on my expert testimony about Kuwaiti law, is Lehn v. Al-Thanayyan, 438 P.3d 646 (Ariz. App. 2019).
Abduction from Hong Kong of the Children of Unmarried Fathers
Blog Jeremy D. Morley In Hong Kong, an unmarried father has no rights of custody over his son or daughter unless and until he brings a court case and succeeds in obtaining a court order that provides him with express rights. This appears to apply even if the mother has added the name of the father to […]
Practice Tip on Returning Abducted Children to Japan
Blog Jeremy D. Morley We just won a Hague Abduction Convention case in Sweden, working with Swedish counsel, and obtained an order to return the abducted children to Japan. Of the greatest importance, the Swedish court granted our express application that our client, the left-behind parent, is the parent who will take the children back […]
United States and Jamaica Become Partners Under the Hague Abduction Convention
Blog On April 1, 2019, the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction entered into force between the United States and Jamaica. The United States now has 79 partners under the Convention.
Expert Testimony: Recent Update
Blog I am pleased to have been accepted again as an expert on the child custody laws and practices of India in international child abduction cases by a court in Canberra, Australia. I testified yesterday as to the recent decisions of the Supreme Court of India, including the most recent case of Lahari Sakhamuri v Sobhan […]
U.S. Complaints Against Japan: International Child Abduction
Blog By Jeremy D. Morley U.S. Senators Feinstein and Tillis have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to increase efforts to bring abducted American children back home to the United States by using all of the tools and resources at the State Department’s disposal. They have specifically criticized the State Department for […]
Expert Testimony: USA child custody
Blog Jeremy D. Morley I am pleased to have been accepted as an expert on international child custody laws and the procedures of Minnesota by an Ontario, Canada court in a Hague Convention abduction case. Recent Update: The Canadian court accepted my testimony and accordingly refused to accept the abductor’s grave risk claim and ordered the […]