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Conflict between Child Custody Laws of China and the United States

Blog The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act – which includes some specific provisions designed to prevent international child abduction – was signed into law in Kansas on April 6, 2007. Kansas is...

Conflict between Child Custody Laws of China and the United States

Blog A recently-decided case in Massachusetts sheds light on the growing problem of international couples and competing divorce jurisdictions. Qiuyue Shao v. Yue Ma. It also illustrates a serious...

For richer and poorer

Blog The current issue of The Economist has an interesting article on international divorce law, the introduction to which is as follows: MARRIAGE may be about love, but divorce is a business. For...

The Grave Risk of Harm Defense in Hague Child Abduction Cases

Blog A major debate is under way as to the future of the “grave risk of harm defense” in Hague Convention international child abduction cases. The move is spearheaded by those who believe that the...

Lawsuits against airlines who allow international child abduction

Blog The abduction of children from the United States is facilitated by the lack of exit controls at U.S. borders. A lawsuit just filed in Massachusetts against Continental Airlines may help shift at...

New article on Japan and International Child Abduction

Blog The current issue of Metropolis Tokyo has an update on Japan’s practices that favor international child abduction. The article is based in significant part on my input. Part of the article...

Equitable Tolling, Concealment and the One-Year, Well-Settled Provision in Article 12 of the Hague Child Abduction Convention

Blog The Southern District of Texas has clarified the issue of whether a parent’s concealment of a child should affect the judicial application of the one-year provision in Article 12 of the...

Foreigner in U.S. on Visitor’s Visa Does Not Fulfill Nevada’s Divorce Residency Requirement

Blog A Canadian wife who had lived in Nevada for 3½ years on a visitor’s visa could not get divorced in Nevada. So held the Nevada Supreme Court (Rozsnyai v. Svacek, 272 Neb. 567 (Nov. 2006))...

Australia – Child Relocation

Blog Reviewing Australia’s Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 leads to great concern that international (and domestic) relocation cases in Australia might become...

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