Jeremy D. Morley When I was in India in early September there was great hope among the legal community that India would move forward to join the community of nations in acceding to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Those hopes were dashed by the recent announcement by India’s Women […]
My hot-off-the-press article entitled Parental Tug-of-War: Preventing International Child Abduction, in the just-released issue of GPSOLO, an American Bar Association publication, is now available on my website: The article contains a host of practical tips on how to represent clients who are worried that their child may be abducted overseas and discusses the legal context […]
Jeremy D. Morley Prenuptial agreements for international people based in Hong Kong may be tremendously useful but must be carefully drafted by counsel with international experience and knowledge, says international family lawyer Jeremy D. Morley. The same applies to post-nuptial agreements in Hong Kong. It should be noted that nuptial agreements between the parties are not included in the list of factors that the […]
We have just read the appeal judgment of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in a case entitled Prosecutor v. Alex Tamba Brima, Brima Bazzy Kamara and Santigie Borbor Kanu http://www.sc-sl.org/AFRC.html For international family lawyers the judgment is significant in that the court ruled that forced marriage constitutes a crime against […]
by Jeremy D. Morley I had the pleasure this week of participating in a panel discussion organized by the Singapore Bar Association with three brilliant international family lawyers, Yap Teong Liang of Singapore, Kiran Dhaliwal of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Keturah Sageman of Sydney, Australia. The topic was Relocation v Abduction – Fight or Flight: […]
Court strikes out appeal by Muslim husband in interfaith custody case BY V. ANBALAGAN, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Published: 10 September 2014 http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/court-strikes-out-appeal-by-muslim-husband-in-interfaith-custody-case The Court of Appeal today struck out an appeal by Muslim convert Muhammad Ridzuan Abdullah who was found in contempt of court for his refusal to hand over his daughter to the mother […]
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 Appeal […]
We are thrilled to advise that our client, Stacy Peters, has returned to the United States with her two children. Her oldest child was the subject of a lengthy and hotly-contested international custody battle. Our client is overjoyed and very grateful but she now asks for some time alone with her children. Please follow this […]
The New York legislature has passed a law that clears up what had been an enormous problem concerning the enforcement of prenuptial agreements in New York. New Section 250 of the Domestic Relations Law now provides that the three year statute of limitations for commencing an action or asserting a defense that arises from a […]
Jeremy D. Morley The level of corruption within a state’s legal system may be an important factor in evaluating the risk of a proposed visit to that country by a child and a parent in litigation to permit or prevent such a visit. Obviously the risk is far greater if the level of corruption […]
The article below concerning international child abduction via the Netherlands is worrying. Remember that a child who is in any country in Europe’s Schengen Areamay then be taken into another Schengen country without a passport. The Schengen Borders Code requires participating states to remove all obstacles to free traffic flow at internal borders. But note that only […]
Swiss clockmakers fail to tell the time: ECHR allows abduction after many delays There is much controversy across the child abduction world, between Europe and non-European countries, following a decision of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Neulinger & Shuruk v. Switzerland (Application no. 41615/07) handed down on 6 […]
She’s only 7, a schoolgirl from Elizabeth, but Arianna Adan soon may change state, national and even international law. Legal briefs filed by two state agencies, a coalition of national organizations and her mother’s lawyers seek not only to block Arianna’s deportation in an international custody case, but also to change the way the United […]
The U.S. Senate has today passed a “Bipartisan Resolution Calls on Countries to Do More to Prevent and Resolve Cases of Children Abducted by Parents Across International Borders.” The Resolution should be useful when seeking to prevent potential abduction to Japan, India, and Egypt, since those countries are specifically “reprimanded.” The Resolution also reinforces claims […]
