Brazil: State Department’s Annual Report on International Child Abduction, 2024
Blog Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Brazil since 2003. In 2023, Brazil continued to demonstrate a pattern ofnoncompliance. Specifically, the Brazilian judicial authorities failed to regularly implement and comply with the provisions of the Convention. As a result of this failure, 43 percent of requests for the return of abducted children under the […]
Belize: State Department’s Annual Report on International Child Abduction, 2024
Blog Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Belize since 1989. In 2023, Belize continued to demonstrate a pattern ofnoncompliance. Specifically, the judicial authorities failed to regularly implement and comply with the provisions of the Convention. As a result of this failure, 50 percent of requests for the return of abducted children under the […]
Argentina: State Department’s Annual Report on International Child Abduction, 2024
Blog The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2024 Annual Report on International Child Abduction. Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Argentina since 1991. In 2023, Argentina continued to demonstrate a pattern of noncompliance. Specifically, the Argentine judicial authorities failed to regularly implement and comply with the provisions of the Convention. As […]
Child Abduction Risks Concerning India: Minnesota Appellate Decision
Blog by Jeremy D Morley India is a well-established safe haven for international child abduction, in this author’s opinion, but expert evidence must be supplied to a court before it may make any such determination. In a case in Minnesota, a district court authorized the parties’ mother to take their child to India for summer […]
International Child Abduction from the UK to the United States: UCCJEA or the Hague Convention?
Blog Published: 3rd April 2024 Whenever children are abducted from the United Kingdom to the United States, counsel for the left-behind parents must consider a most unusual aspect of U.S. law when determining the optimal methods of securing the children’s return. Not only may a case be started under the Hague Abduction Convention in the […]
Does Pakistan Comply with the Hague Abduction Convention?
Blog by Jeremy D. Morley The United States accepted Pakistan’s accession to the Hague Abduction Convention in 2020, but there has been very little experience so far concerning Pakistan’s compliance with the treaty. The latest State Department report to Congress on this issue merely states that no Convention cases concerning abductions from the United States […]
Obtaining a U.S. Passport for a Parent with a Foreign Sole Custody Order
Blog By Jeremy D. Morley Can a parent who has obtained an order of sole custody of a U.S. citizen child from a foreign court obtain a U.S. passport for the child without notice to the other parent and without the consent of the other parent? My answer is that it depends on the circumstances […]
Pakistani Divorce Law Issues
Blog Jeremy D. Morley[1] www.international-divorce.com This article concerns Muslim divorces in Pakistan. A Muslim marriage is a civil contract, known as a nikah nama. The nikah nama contains provisions for the dowry (“mahr”). The mahr is usually in two parts – the money or gifts delivered to the wife upon marriage and the money or gifts to be deferred and […]
Canada to U.S. Hague Abduction Case
Blog We are delighted that yesterday after a lengthy trial, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Briccetti J.) upheld our client’s position that her relocation of her children from Montreal to Monsey, New York was not in violation of the Hague Abduction Convention.
Abducted Children Returned from Colombia
Blog We are delighted to have assisted in securing the return to their home in the U.S. of children who were wrongfully retained in the country of Colombia. The return was a result of actions taken in the United States not in Colombia. Colombia remains a high-risk destination for child visits whenever a parent has reason to […]