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 […]
The Superior Court in Ontario, Canada relied in substantial part on the expert evidence of Jeremy D. Morley as to family law in India in ruling that the father of a four-year-old child living in Ontario should not be permitted to take the child on a family visit to India. Mahadevan v. Shankar, issued October […]
By MATTHEW M. BURKE AND KEISHI KOJA STARS AND STRIPES • October 19, 2022 https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-10-19/japan-parental-child-abduction-hague-7740130.html In the 10 years since Donny Conway’s daughters Christina and Chihiro were taken by their Japanese mother to her home country without his consent, he has kept their bedroom in his California home filled with unopened Christmas presents, handwritten notes and reams […]
The firestorm of publicity that we generated concerning the case of my client, Chris Savoie, whose kids were abducted to Japan by their Japanese mother, has now led to an official demand by eight countries that Japan stop its practice of providing a safe haven for international child abduction. In order to generate concern about […]
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 […]
Delphine Eskenazi, admitted to the Paris and New York bars, LIBRA Avocats, Carmel Brown, Solicitor in England, Irwin Mitchell and Jeremy D. Morley, admitted to the New York bar, Law Firm of Jeremy D. Morley consider the new divorce by Mutual Consent in France and its wider implications for other countries. Since 1st January 2017, […]
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Romania has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken the following actions in this regard against Romania: · […]
Jeremy D. Morley In 2013, Michigan enacted a law that provides that, unless both parents expressly consent, “a parenting time order shall contain a prohibition on exercising parenting time in a country that is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.” Prior to its enactment I opined that […]
Testimonials: We receive a constant stream of unsolicited testimonials about our services in international family law, especially concerning international child abduction, international prenuptial agreements, international divorce matters and international child custody cases. Here’s the newest one, received today: “I needed a complicated pre-nuptial agreement that covered multiple countries. Jeremy did a great job coordinating an […]
by Jeremy D. Morley People with assets and international connections who are contemplating a divorce, as well as the spouses of such people, should first consult us for Strategic International Divorce Planning advice. Here is what we do for a motivated client (always working with local counsel as appropriate): 1. Analyze the Family’s Entire Economic […]
The U.S. Department of State, in its 2006 Report on Compliance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, has declared that Venezuela is “noncompliant” with the terms of the Convention. The report states that: “Venezuela was not mentioned in the 2005 Convention compliance report because there were no active cases […]
By SUSAN CHRISTIAN GOULDING | [email protected] | Orange County Register 8/29/17 In an alternate life, Keisuke Collins would have started high school last week as a freshman at Foothill High. But in reality, Keisuke lives an ocean away from Orange County and from the father who misses him. In the wake of a bitter divorce, […]
Jeremy D. Morley* Child custody orders are not enforced in Japan. There is merely a provision for a fine, but it is usually de minimis and rarely employed. It does not impede a parent with physical possession of a child from denying the other parent access to the child. This is one reason (among several) […]
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 […]
