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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...

Will The Philippines Accede to the Hague Abduction Convention?

Blog The Philippines is currently determining whether to accede to the Hague Abduction Convention. The Philippines’ Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee has created a special Subcommittee...

Australian Court Allows Visit to Russia

Blog An Australian court has ordered the Russian mother of an Australian child may take the child for annual visits to Russia despite the objections of the Australian father who asserted that although...

Some Guidelines for Negotiating and Drafting Prenuptial Agreements for Parties with a U.S. Connection

Blog 1.  Disclosure, disclosure, disclosure. Disclosure cures many sins – but certainly not all. 2.  Independent representation. Cures many more sins, and is absolutely required in some – but not most...

Prenuptial Agreements: Choice of Court Clauses

Blog A “choice of court” clause allows the parties to select the forum whose courts will have jurisdiction to interpret and implement the agreement. This can be extremely useful, because the parties...

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