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Violent Threats to Parent Establishes Grave Risk to Child under Hague Abduction Convention

Blog Jeremy D. Morley (Author, The Hague Abduction Convention: Practical Issues and Procedures for Family Lawyers, published by ABA) In a significant ruling, the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that a...

Unjustifiable Conduct, International Child Custody & the UCCJEA

Blog Interesting and difficult jurisdictional questions frequently arise when a parent unilaterally removes a child from another country into the United States. How long has the child been absent from...

ABA: International Law 2016 Spring Meeting

Blog I will be speaking at the ABA Section of International Law Spring meeting in New York on April 14, 2016 at the session entitled, “Till Death Do Us Partor not? International Issues in Marriage...

No Family Law in Saudi Arabia

Blog One might think that the dangers of marrying Saudi nationals and living in Saudi Arabia would by now have been sufficiently well publicized as to cause Western nationals, especially Western...

Habitual Residence: Implied or Inferred Conditions

Blog Determining the child’s “habitual residence” is a threshold issue in any case brought pursuant to the Hague Convention. It is often outcome-determinative because, if the court concludes...

U.S. Child Custody Jurisdiction: UCCJEA v. The Rest of the World

Blog The courts in most countries have jurisdiction to modify prior child custody orders if the child is now habitually or ordinarily resident there, even if the original order was issued by a foreign...

Court Orders Korean Dad to Return Children to Separated Japanese Wife

Blog South Korea because the 89th contracting state to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction in March of 2013.  The Convention came into effect between the United States and Korea in...

Thailand – Child Abduction Update

Blog The Hague Conference on Private International Law reports that the United States accepted Thailand’s accession to the Hague Abduction Convention on January 26, 2016 and that the treaty will...

Law-Shopping & Forum-Shopping in International Prenuptial Agreements

Blog Drafting prenuptial agreements is always challenging but the complexities are greatly magnified when the clients are international, whether in their citizenship, the location of assets, their...

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