South Korea because the 89th contracting state to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction in March of 2013. The Convention came into effect between the United States and Korea in November of 2013 (see our article: http://www.internationalfamilylawfirm.com/2013/11/united-states-and-korea-become-hague.html). The U.S. Department of State, in its 2015 Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction (IPCA), made […]
By Jeremy D. Morley 1. Family and personal status law in Kuwait is governed by religious courts. In Kuwait the Sunni and Shi’a have their own court chambers to handle such matters in accordance with their own jurisprudence. In the case of Sunni Muslims, the Sunni chamber of the Family Court in Kuwait will apply the Maliki […]
Jeremy D. Morley A California court (Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, Case No. DN179669) has applied my expert testimony concerning Japanese child custody law in refusing to order the relocation of a child to Japan. The Court ruled that, although the “Burgess and LaMusga factors” weighed in favor of permitting the relocation, […]
South Korea because the 89th contracting state to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction in March of 2013. The Convention came into effect between the United States and Korea in November of 2013 (see our article: http://www.internationalfamilylawfirm.com/2013/11/united-states-and-korea-become-hague.html). The U.S. Department of State, in its 2015 Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction (IPCA), made […]
The below article was recently published in the May 2016 issue of AJ Famille, a monthly publication featuring articles on all aspects of Family Law, with a French focus: The Hague Abduction Convention in the United States Jeremy D. Morley* The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is a remarkably successful […]
The Second Edition of my book, The Hague Abduction Convention: Practical Issues and Procedures for Family Lawyers, has just been released. Read below for some info about the book, and follow the link at the bottom of this post to purchase the Second Edition. Author(s): Jeremy Morley Sponsor(s): Section of Family Law Co-Sponsor(s): Section of […]
Jeremy D. Morley In Hong Kong, an unmarried father has no rights of custody over his son or daughter unless and until he brings a court case and succeeds in obtaining a court order that provides him with express rights. This appears to apply even if the mother has added the name of the father […]
[email protected] Israel’s Population Registration Law requires Israeli citizens to inform the Population Registry at Israel’s Ministry of the Interior of any change in their personal status. Israeli citizens outside Israel can do so through the Consular Departments of overseas Israeli missions. This means that if an Israeli citizen who is divorced abroad should notify the Population Registry of the change in status on […]
International family lawyer, Jeremy D. Morley, announces the launch of the Strategic International Divorce Planning™ service. Morley contends that people with assets and international connections who are contemplating a divorce, as well as the spouses of such people, should first seek strategic planning support.The financial consequences of being divorced in one jurisdiction rather than another […]
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: […]
A British woman arrested in Dubai for sex outside marriage after making a rape complaint hopes a hasty wedding to her fiance will result in her being freed, British papers say. The 23-year-old said she was raped by a waiter at a hotel where she was celebrating her engagement to her 44-year-old boyfriend on New […]
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 […]
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 case of Van de Sande v. Van de Sande, which was remanded by the Seventh Circuit to the district court in Illinois in 2005 (431 F.3d 567 (7th Cir. 2005) appears to have taken a tragic turn. The district court has now rendered a ruling in which it has thrown the proverbial book at […]
