Passport for Abducted U.S. Children Overseas; Exigent or Special Family Circumstances
Blog Parents of children who are abducted to a foreign country, or who are being retained in a foreign country, often do not have their children’s passports that are needed to enable them to bring the children back to the United States. As part of our work in helping parents to get their kids back […]
Washington State Ruling: Egyptian Child Custody Law Violates Human Rights
Blog There is “clear and convincing evidence that Egyptian child custody laws violate fundamental principles of human rights.” Therefore, Washington State should not treat Egypt as a “state” for purposes of the Uniform Child Custody & Jurisdiction Act. So ruled the Superior Court of Washington for King County yesterday based on the expert evidence of […]
Look Before You Leap
Blog I feel the need to stress – yet again – that a parent or would-be parent who travels for an extended period of time overseas with a spouse or partner should think first about the possibility of your kids being required to stay overseas against your wishes in the event you have a disagreement […]
Collaboration with Lawyers Globally
Blog Thank you to so many of my colleagues in jurisdictions around the world for the great collaboration that we enjoyed throughout the past year in working together to handle interesting and important legal matters for appreciative clients. Together we prevented numerous international child abductions, recovered many internationally abducted children, protected children and parents in […]
Habitual Residence: Hong Kong Rejects the Mozes/Gitter Rule
Blog We have often pointed out that the majority U.S. interpretation of “habitual residence,” the key term in the Hague Abduction Convention, is out of line with the international consensus. Most but not all U.S. circuits follow the rulings in the key cases of Mozes and Gitter. Those cases hold that a change of habitual residence normally requires […]
Interview with Divorce.Co.NZ
Blog An Interview with Jeremy Morley – of International Family Law in NYIn researching child relocation and abduction law, I came across Jeremy Morley. His website, www.international-divorce.com, was very informative about the subject – something lawyers are not always known for. I decided to call and interview Jeremy, as the subject of child abduction and relocation is currently […]
Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act
Blog The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act (“UCAPA”) has been adopted by 14 states and by the District of Columbia. The jurisdictions that have adopted the Act are Alabama, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah. In 2015 just one state, Michigan, was […]
The Fundamental Misconception Underlying the Hague Abduction Convention
Blog The Hague Convention was drafted upon the basis of a fundamental misconception. When it was negotiated it was anticipated that the abductors would mostly be noncustodial fathers. In fact, most parental international child abductors are the custodial parents of their children, most of whom are the children’ s mothers, as the U.K. Supreme Court […]
Update on Prenuptial Agreements in India
Blog We have previously written — www.internationalprenuptials.com/prenups-in-india.html — that: India has no law on prenuptial or post nuptial agreements. Such agreements are not common in India and are contrary to Indian customs and views about marriage. Nevertheless, the global publicity about celebrity prenuptial agreements is encouraging more affluent people to consider the idea in India. There appears […]
Egyptian Child Custody Law & Human Rights
Blog The Court of Appeals of Washington State, Division One, has issued a Commissioner’s Ruling refusing to allow discretionary review of a lower court ruling that held – based on the expert evidence of international family lawyer Jeremy D. Morley, as well as another expert – that Egypt’s child custody laws violate fundamental principles of human […]