Japan to Sign Hague Child Abduction Convention
Blog Yes!!!! 05/10/2008BY MIAKO ICHIKAWATHE ASAHI SHIMBUN Japan will sign a treaty obliging the government to return to the rightful parent children of broken international marriages who are wrongfully taken and kept in Japan, sources said Friday. The Justice Ministry will begin work to review current laws with an eye on meeting requirements under the 1980 Hague […]
Preventing International Child Abduction: Texas Case
Blog When should a court take steps to prevent possible international child abduction by a foreign national parent? This issue is critical to many parents but many courts — and even many family law lawyers — do not give the issue the serious consideration that it must be given. The consequences of international parental child […]
Australia Child Custody & Relocation Problems
Blog Australian child custody law presumes that it is in the best interests of the child for each of the child’s parents to have equal shared parental responsibility. (Australia’s Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006). This presumption has reportedly created significant damage. Judge Graham Mullane has reported to the Association of Family and […]
Korean Adultery Law
Blog Adultery is a crime in Korea punishable by up to two years in jail. Now Ok So-Ri, a famous Korean actress who has been indicted for adultery, has petitioned Korea’s Constitutional Court to invalidate the 1953 law that criminalizes such conduct. In her complaint, her attorneys have argued that, “The adultery law constitutes a serious breach of the individual’s […]
International parental child abduction from the U.S. to India
Blog There has been a rash of cases concerning parents who remove a child from the United States to Indiawithout the consent of the other parent and then refuse to return the child to this country. Parents often have a grave misunderstanding of the serious nature of such parental child abduction. Many believe that simply because India is […]
Offshore Trusts and Divorce
Blog The chief justice of the Cayman Islands, Mr Justice Smellie, has launched a staunch defense of trusts and has railed against what he described as the “entirely misguided” criticism of offshore trusts by onshore authorities. This fuels expectations that there will be an unprecedented stand-off between offshore and onshore judges over the issue. In the […]
India – Good News in an International Child Abduction Case
Blog For more than three years, Deepa Topiwalla fell asleep every night wondering where her young son was. She doesn’t have to wonder anymore. He sleeps in her bedroom in a small bed next to hers. After a court battle that took her halfway across the world, she has returned home to Cary with her son, and […]
Japan Won’t Let Abducted Kids Go
Blog This article from ABC News is based in part on an interview with me.Notwithstanding the information in the article, there are some things that can be done in case of child abduction to Japan, though rarely using the Japanese “system.”By RUSSELL GOLDMAN, Feb. 26, 2008 — Kaya Wong’s parents never imagined they would be […]
NCMEC Not Handling Incoming Child Abduction Cases
Blog The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has announced that as of April 1, 2008 it will no longer handle any aspect of incoming child abduction cases arising under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. As the U.S. Central Authority, the U.S. Department of State has decided to […]
Saudi Family Law Must Be Revised: U.N.
Blog GENEVA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia must create laws to protect women from violence and also allow them to play a bigger role in society and the workplace, the United Nations said on Thursday. “The lack of written laws governing private life constitutes a major obstacle to women’s access to justice,” said Yakin Erturk, the U.N.’s […]