European Court Hearing in Important Hague Case
Blog An extremely important case concerning the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction will be argued in a few days before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. The case is X v. Latvia (ECHR Application no. 27853/09). The fundamental issue is the reach of the European Court’s […]
Book Announcement: Hague Abduction Convention
Blog I’m pleased to announce the publishing of my new book: The Hague Abduction Convention: Practical Issues and Procedures for Family Lawyers. The book covers all critical aspects of the Hague Convention, including procedural and practical issues, habitual residence, consent and acquiescence, rights of custody, common exceptions to the treaty, the child’s objections, and international […]
A (Somewhat) Happy Ending to a Japanese Child Abduction Case
Blog Here is an update about an international child abduction case in which we provided extensive and continuing behind-the-scenes strategic advice to the left-behind father and his local lawyers. Most parental child abductions to Japan end up very badly. This is an exception to the rule. Mother who abducted daughter to Japan avoids prisonBy Bruce […]
An Update Concerning Japan’s Continuing Failure to Sign the Hague Abduction Convention
Blog Over the past couple of years the Japanese Government has made a succession of statements concerning its purported intention to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. These statements were quite effective in that they served to limit the international pressure on Japan to sign the treaty. Of course, […]
Preventing International Travel: Connecticut Court Relies on Jeremy Morley’s Expert Testimony
Blog The Superior Court in New Haven, Connecticut relied in substantial part on the expert evidence presented by Jeremy Morley as to family law in India in ruling that the mother of a young girl should not be allowed to travel to India with the child for a visit with family. The child’s father opposed the […]
International Child Relocation & the Plight of the Expat Spouse
Blog June 1, 2012 – for Australian Family Lawyer International child relocation is a hot issue in the States as it is in Australia. And some hot issues just don’t get solved. We’ve been trying a case for weeks (on and off) in New York between two French parents, one of whom wants to relocate […]
ABA BOOK: The Hague Abduction Convention: Practical Issues and Procedures for the Family Lawyer
Blog Announcing the Publication of The Hague Abduction Convention: Practical Issues and Procedures for the Family Lawyer by Jeremy D. Morley A NEWLY RELEASED BOOK PUBLISHED BY BY THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION Every family lawyer should understand the workings of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Family law is becoming […]
Turkey and International Child Abduction
Blog Turkey has a record of failing to comply with international norms concerning the return of internationally abducted children and the Hague Abduction Convention. Courts in Turkey have frequently insisted that a Hague case requires the courts to conduct a full and lengthy “best interests” evaluation. Such practices are in flagrant disregard of the treaty, […]
Client Returns Child to Brazil under Hague Convention
Blog We are very pleased that, working with local counsel Jean-Paul Gallelli, we have secured the return of our client’s child from California to Brazil under the Hague Abduction Convention, pursuant to a successful application to the Superior Court in Los Angeles.
Preventing International Travel: Bali, Indonesia
Blog In a recent Nevada case, I was asked to testify as an expert concerning the risk of a child’s international travel to Bali, Indonesia. The Nevada Court relied upon my expert testimony as to Indonesian law and practices concerning child abduction. Indonesia is not a signatory to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, […]