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Country Summary: Jordan does not adhere to any protocols with respect to international parental child abduction. In 2006, the United States and Jordan signed a Memorandum of Understanding to encourage voluntary resolution of abduction cases and facilitate parental access to abducted children. In 2019, Jordan continued to demonstrate a pattern of noncompliance. Specifically, the competent authorities […]

I’m pleased to announce the publishing of my new book: The Hague Abduction Convention: Practical Issues and Procedures for Family Lawyers.  The book covers all critical aspects of the Hague Convention, including procedural and practical issues, habitual residence, consent and acquiescence, rights of custody, common exceptions to the treaty, the child’s objections, and international relocation […]

by Jeremy D. Morley Jeremy D. Morley is the author of The Hague Abduction Convention, published by the American Bar Association A draft law in Michigan, which recently received unanimous approval from the Michigan Senate, would require that all Michigan child custody orders must prohibit a parent from taking a child to a country that […]

by Jeremy D. Morley www.international-divorce.com The structure of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction requires a court in any case brought under the Convention to follow a step-by-step process in order to apply it logically and correctly. Those steps are as follows: 1.                  First, the court must determine when the […]

By Jeremy D. Morley A court in Ontario, Canada has declared that the interpretation and application of the Hague Abduction Convention by two Polish courts was dead wrong and “repugnant to the objectives of the Convention.” The order dated February 12th 2015 by Justice David Price of the Superior Court in Ontario in Nowacki v. Nowacki pulls […]

The Supreme Court of Uganda has refused to declare that the practice of exchanging money, cows, or other goods for a bride is unconstitutional in Uganda, notwithstanding the claim that it reduces the women to mere properties. However, the Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for a man to have the right to claim […]

We are very pleased to report a successful outcome in a California – Quebec, Canada international child abduction case. We represented the father and worked with local counsel in California and in Quebec. The Quebec Court of Appeal has just issued a judgment overturning the decision of the Superior Court in Quebec and ordering that […]

Time magazine has an interesting article on the technological advances in Seoul, Korea, entitled Seoul: World’s Most Wired Megacity Gets More So. Part of the article caught my eye because it has great application in preventing international child abduction: Earlier this year, the city rolled out U–safety zones for children, a program using security cameras, […]

We have represented many international clients who have entered into marriage contracts or prenuptial agreements with Japanese spouses. We always work in collaboration with Japanese counsel in such matters as appropriate and as instructed by our clients. Prenuptial agreements are not common in Japan. They have never been a part of Japanese culture, even for […]

The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Peru has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for the last nine years. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken the following actions in […]

Lawyers representing international clients who plan to marry and who want the protection of a prenuptial agreement should always consider the international ramifications of any proposed agreement. While conventional domestic prenuptial agreements raise grave malpractice concerns for family lawyers, the concerns become a hazardous minefield when the issues are multi-jurisdictional. In many ways the world […]

By Jeremy D. Morley International family law is expanding as people travel more and spend time with people from different countries. International personal relationships produce an abundance of conflict and litigation. It is hard enough for people to live together when they share a similar background, but it is far harder when they are from […]

In an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in May 2006, this author vehemently protested what he asserted was Germany’s noncompliance with its treaty obligations under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. http://www.international-divorce.com/germany_-_open_letter.htm The letter focused on a pattern of lengthy delays and stalling that was preventing […]

I just found this ruling from a while back by a judge in Connecticut on the impact of my testimony as an expert witness on India law and practice. “We, normally in these matters, do not have the opportunity to hear from an expert witness, particularly someone as learned and as experienced in what I’ll […]