September 2025

From http://legalcurrent.com/2010/04/16/international-family-law-expert-offers-his-insight Practice tips Cases involving children, spouses and families can often be complicated when one country’s laws are involved. When those cases reach across borders and time zones the complexity increases. Now an attorney who the media has often turned to for help in understanding a complicated international family law issue – like child […]

At a hearing held on December 10, 2018 by a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Chris Smith alleged that nearly 100 American children have been abducted to India. He sought “real action” from the Trump administration to bring them back to the country. He said that, “We have 100 […]

The Superior Court in New Haven, Connecticut relied in substantial part on the expert evidence presented by Jeremy Morley as to family law in India in ruling that the mother of a young girl should not be allowed to travel to India with the child for a visit with family.  The child’s father opposed the […]

Jeremy D. Morley www.international-divorce.com Why do we recommend that a party with assets who is entering into an international marriage with a Swedish citizen or resident should always consider entering into an international prenuptial agreement? Because the law of Sweden concerning the division of assets upon a divorce is unusual and can be devastatingly unfair […]

The following are excerpts, without footnotes, of an article published in the Judges’ Newsletter on International Child Protection Vol. XX, Summer – Autumn 2013. The full article is available on the website of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Concentration of Jurisdiction under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects […]

A new national legal service has been launched to provide free legal assistance to Australian parents dealing with the international abduction of a child. Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon said the service would provide practical support to parents in distressing circumstances. “We want to make it as straightforward as possible for parents to get the assistance they […]

The U.S. State Department has just issued its 2017 Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction under the International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act (ICAPRA). The individual country information and the statistics within pertain to the 2016 calendar year.  The report identifies 13 countries as “Noncompliant Countries,” as defined in ICAPRA.  Nine of these […]

By Jeremy D. Morley* In Malaysia the sharp split between two judicial systems for child custody cases, with custody cases between Muslims being conducted before Shariah courts while other cases are conducted before civil courts, the Shariah rules that favor Muslims, and uncertain rules and practices as to whether a child may be unilaterally converted […]

In an interview with Estado newspaper, the Special Advisor for Children’s Issues said cases are left pending for too long The US government says Brazil is not fully complying with the international standards on child abduction stipulated by the Hague Convention. The problem is the slow judicial system, the Special Advisor for Children’s Issues, ambassador […]

In 2019, the American Institute in Taiwan and Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation on international parental child abduction. Taiwan is not a party to the Hague Abduction Convention. The Memorandum of Understanding does not require Taiwan to return children who are abducted to Taiwan. Indeed, the agreement expressly states that, “This MoU creates no legal rights or […]

The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. Below is our fourth post in a series here focusing on the nine countries classified as “demonstrating patterns of noncompliance.”  Today’s country is Ecuador. Country Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Ecuador since 1992. In 2019, Ecuador continued […]

The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. Below is our ninth post in a series here focusing on the ten countries classified as “demonstrating patterns of noncompliance.” Today’s country is Romania. Country Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Romania since 1993. In 2019, Romania […]

Pursuant to Section 3 of the Divorce Act 2005 of St. Kitts and Nevis, “The Court may hear and determine any Divorce proceedings if either spouse has been ordinarily resident in Saint Christopher and Nevis; for at least one year immediately preceding the commencement of the Divorce proceedings.” The phrase “ordinary resident” has been interpreted […]

This article from ABC News is based in part on an interview with me. Notwithstanding the information in the article, there are some things that can be done in case of child abduction to Japan, though rarely using the Japanese “system.” Kaya Wong’s parents never imagined they would be able to have a baby. Born […]