The Federal Circuit Court of Australia has issued a ruling denying a mother’s application for overseas travel from Australia to India to attend her marriage ceremony. The decision was based in large part on my expert testimony concerning the child custody laws of India and the risks of international parental child abduction for a child […]
Two film-makers, David Hearn and Matt Antell, are working on a film project to draw attention to the scandal of parental child abductions to Japan and in Japan. They are conducting a fundraiser for their film to be held in Tokyo in December at the Pink Cow restaurant (http://www.thepinkcow.com/NewMap_e.htm) in Shibuya on December 11th starting […]
Jeremy D. Morley* Qatar’s law as to child custody is Sharia law and is codified in the Qatari Law of the Family, Law no. 22 of 2006. All child custody disputes are decided by Qatari courts based on Islamic Sharia law, regardless of the religion of the parents. The precepts of the statutory law are […]
The Southern District of Texas has clarified the issue of whether a parent’s concealment of a child should affect the judicial application of the one-year provision in Article 12 of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Driessche v. Ohio-Esezeoboh, 2006 Lexis 92943 (S.D.Tex. Dec. 2006). The United States has developed […]
The Singapore High Court has enforced a prenuptial agreement entered into in the Netherlands between a Swedish wife and a Dutch husband. TQ v. TR, [2007] SGHC 106; decision date July 11, 2007. The couple had lived together in England, had moved for a short time to the Netherlands, where they had married and executed […]
Jayanth Krishnan had an inter-faith wedding. But before the couple got married, they signed a prenuptial agreement stipulating that neither would force the other to change his or her religion in the future. However, two years down the line, Krishnan’s wife started putting pressure on him to change his religion. Krishnan promptly sought a divorce. […]
Jeremy D. Morley [email protected] One of the best ways to prevent international child abduction is to maintain careful control over the child’s passports. On the other hand, it is often essential for left-behind parents to obtain new passports for children who have been abducted, especially if they want to bring them home directly. Here is an overview of the fundamental rules. […]
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 […]
Here is an update about an international child abduction case in which we provided extensive and continuing behind-the-scenes strategic advice to the left-behind father and his local lawyers. Most parental child abductions to Japan end up very badly. This is an exception to the rule. Mother who abducted daughter to Japan avoids prison By Bruce […]
Here is an update about an international child abduction case in which we provided extensive and continuing behind-the-scenes strategic advice to the left-behind father and his local lawyers. Most parental child abductions to Japan end up very badly. This is an exception to the rule. Mother who abducted daughter to Japan avoids prison By Bruce […]
Jeremy D. Morley On March 21, 2014 Iraq acceded to the Hague Abduction Convention, with no reservations, declarations or notifications. On April 14, 2014 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq issued the following announcement: A celebration took place in the headquarters of the Peace Palace in The Hague for the countries that […]
This editorial (see below) in Australia’s Courier-Mail criticizes the provisions in Australia’s recently-amended Family Law Act that call for equal shared parenting orders. The article is totally on target. However it does not address another unexpected consequence of the new law, which is that it has made it even harder than before for an expat […]
By Jeremy Morley Are you someone who always runs at the last minute to catch a plane? Or do you prefer to arrive at the airport ten minutes early and relax? This is a question that marketing gurus ask so as to illustrate the benefits of sensible planning in business. In my area — international […]
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 […]
