Supreme Court New Hague Abduction Convention Ruling
Blog The U.S. Supreme Court has today, in Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez, upheld the Second Circuit ruling that the one year period in the “one year and settled” exception to the Hague Abduction Convention is not subject to equitable tolling. The decision is not surprising since that is what the treaty provides and the American equitable tolling […]
Russia to establish special courts for international kidnapping cases
Blog 03/03/2014 MOSCOW, March 3 (RAPSI) – Russia will establish special courts to adjudicate cases involving international kidnapping cases, Deputy Minister for Education and Science Veneiamin Kaganov told RIA Novosti Monday. In 2011, Russia joined the International Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which aims to facilitate the immediate retrieval of children unlawfully […]
English Prenuptial Plan Ill-Considered
Blog I believe that the U.K. Law Commission’s hot-off-the-press proposal about prenuptial agreements in England and Wales is somewhat ill-considered. The reason that parties who marry want prenuptial agreements is to create security as to the financial terms of their future relationship and to avoid the potential expense, intrusiveness and uncertainty of litigation concerning the […]
Cayman Islands: Family court rulings made public
Blog Family court rulings made public Local courts buck long trend of secrecy By: Brent Fuller | brent@cfp.ky 20 February, 2014 Court cases involving child custody, adoption and divorces heard in the Cayman Islands Grand Court, Family Division are – in certain instances – now being made public once a judgment is rendered. To protect the identities of […]
Bond Unreliable to Deter Potential International Child Abduction
Blog A Florida appeal court has sensibly overturned a lower court’s decision that had allowed the visit of two children to Jamaica to see their father conditioned primarily on his filing a $50,000 bond. The father had been deported to Jamaica upon convictions for battery on the mother and had repeatedly threatened to kidnap the […]
Turkish Family Law
Blog I had the great pleasure and privilege recently of addressing the First Turkish-American Lawyers Conference at New York Law School on the topic of “Turkey and International Family Law.” My particular focus was on Turkey and international child custody matters, especially: -Relocation of children from Turkey to the United States. -The recovery of children abducted […]
Model Rabbinic Leadership
Blog By Rachel Levmoe 02/05/2014 Jewish communities the world over can, and should, stamp out the agunah problem.A striking demonstration of true rabbinic leadership was unveiled this week, in what may be the most unlikely of countries. One would expect creative rabbinic rulings for the good of an entire community to emanate from the great […]
Book Review: The Hague Abduction Convention by Jeremy D. Morley
Blog 2-FEB Colo. Law. 60 Colorado Lawyer February, 2013 Department Reviews of Legal Resources [FNa1] Book Review *60 THE HAGUE ABDUCTION CONVENTION: PRACTICAL ISSUES AND PROCEDURES FOR FAMILY LAWYERS BY JEREMY D. MORLEY 404 PP.; $149 ABA PUBLISHING, 2012 321 N. CLARK ST., CHICAGO, IL 60610-4714 (800) 285-2221; WWW.ABABOOKS.ORG Review of Morley on The Hague Abduction Convention Here is […]
Left Behind: Parents Challenge Japan’s Dismal Child Abduction Laws
Blog It sounds like something out of a John Grisham novel—but it’s not. “The gentleman was here on a holiday in January 2013 with his family,” explains Bruce Gherbetti, deputy chairman of Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion, discussing the case of a Canadian man who had reached out to their organization after his Japanese wife abducted their […]
Australia: Asset Division on Divorce
Blog In an important ruling the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia at Sydney has distinguished, if not overturned, a line of cases whereby a judge could make an unequal distribution of the parties’ assets if the party to be favored had made a “special contribution” based on “special skills” to the creation […]