U.S. ACTIONS AGAINST BULGARIA FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH HAGUE ABDUCTION CONVENTION

Blog The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Bulgaria has been declared by the State Department to be noncompliant with the Hague Abduction Convention. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken the following actions in this regard against Bulgaria: […]

U.S. ACTIONS AGAINST ARGENTINA FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH HAGUE ABDUCTION CONVENTION

Blog The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Argentina has been declared by the State Department to be noncompliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for each and every year for the past eight years. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it […]

U.S. ACTIONS AGAINST BRAZIL FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH HAGUE ABDUCTION CONVENTION

Blog The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Brazil has by far the worst record of all of the countries in the world of having been declared by the State Department to be noncompliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for each and every year for the past […]

Chinese Divorce Law: A Major Development

Blog by Jeremy D. Morley https://www.international-divorce.com/notes-on-laws-and-practices-of-china-3 In China, marital property is theoretically required to be divided equally between the spouses upon a divorce. But without an enforceable obligation to make full disclosure of assets, there has inevitably been a yawning gap between theory and practice. Until recently, no such obligation to disclose assets existed in […]

U.S. ACTIONS AGAINST BELIZE FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH HAGUE ABDUCTION CONVENTION

Blog The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Belize has been declared by the State Department to be noncompliant with the Hague Abduction Convention. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken the following actions in this regard against Belize: […]

THE HAGUE ABDUCTION CONVENTION OR THE UCCJEA: WHICH SHOULD WE USE?

Blog By Jeremy D. Morley If a child is abducted to the United States from a country that is a party to the Hague Abduction Convention, the left-behind parent usually has a choice of seeking the child’s return under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (the “UCCJEA”) or the Convention. A UCCJEA case must […]

UAE: Abu Dhabi Divorce for Non-Muslims

Blog By Jeremy D. Morley Abu Dhabi’s non-Muslim Personal Status Law (Abu Dhabi Law No 14/2021) allows non-Muslims to obtain a divorce in the Emirate by means of a civil procedure in a new court, the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court, under a secular law that is separate from that which applies to UAE Muslim families.  […]

KOREA CHILD ABDUCTION NONCOMPLIANCE

Blog Korea has again been found non-compliant by the United States Department of State as a result of the failure of the Korean authorities to enforce orders to return internationally abducted children. In the 2023 Annual Report on International Child Abduction issued by the US State Department, as required to be issued by the International […]