English Criminal Law in International Child Abduction Cases
Blog Courts, prosecutors and the police are often reluctant to apply criminal law in international child abduction cases. They feel that such cases are mere family disputes that should be resolved privately or through the civil courts. In many cases this view is naïve and it can be extremely harmful. Now the English Court of […]
Expert Testimony As To International Child Abduction And Other International Family Law Issues
Blog International family lawyers are frequently called upon to act as an expert witness concerning international child abduction and other family law issues. Such testimony can be of vital importance. Unfortunately many family lawyers and their clients often do not recognize the potential value of such testimony. Exert testimony can make the difference in a […]
Child Abduction Victory Does Not Signal a Change in Japan’s “Do Nothing” Approach to International Child Abduction
Blog My client, Moises Garcia, may be about to achieve the impossible: bringing a child abducted from the United States to Japan back home from Japan by means of the legal system. But let no one be mistaken. It was the legal system in the U.S. – and some unusually good luck – that did […]
Victory in Preventing an International Child Abduction
Blog To the overwhelming elation and relief of our client, a terrified and panic-stricken Chinese mother, we succeeded recently in having a baby intercepted at an airport exit gate as his father was about to abduct him from the United States to India. Mother’s joy at being reunited with her lost child capped our office’s […]
U.S. Arrest in Japanese Child Abduction Case
Blog The article below just published in the Mainichi newspaper in Japan illustrates the continuing terrible problems with international child abduction to Japan.The left-behind father is my client and I will not comment on the case except to say that: (a) The facts have been utterly distorted and misstated in the Japanese press, which is […]
Mirror Orders to Help Prevent International Child Abduction
Blog October 2011 Mirror Orders to Help Prevent International Child Abduction By Jeremy D. Morley So-called “mirror” orders can be a useful tool in the arsenal of lawyers who handle cases concerning international child travel and the prevention of potential international child abduction. So, what exactly is a mirror order, and how can it be […]
United States Criminal Laws Concerning Passports
Blog Follow this link to a new article appearing on our website concerning criminal laws involving passports: U.S. Criminal Laws Concerning Passports
Russia Accedes to Hague Child Abduction Convention
Blog On Thursday, 28 July 2011, the Russian Federation deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Convention will enter into force for the Russian Federation on 1 October 2011. The treaty will not be in force between Russia and The United […]
Hungary Violates the Hague Convention on Abduction
Blog Having worked on international child custody matters concerning Hungary for several years, and having consulted with Hungarian counsel on such issues, it is unfortunately clear that Hungary does not comply with its obligation under the Hague Abduction Convention to promptly return children who are wrongfully taken to Hungary or retained in Hungary. My conclusions […]
Expert testimony: Chinese Family Law and Potential International Child Abduction to China
Blog In what the Court described as a “very difficult case” between two Chinese parents living in Georgia — one of whom (the child’s mother) faces deportation to China for lack of an immigration visa and had asked the Court to give custody of the parties’ child to her and to authorize her to relocate […]