The hot-off-the-press decision of the English Court of Appeal in a Russia-English divorce case is most interesting. Stay tuned for analysis. Meanwhile today’s Daily Mail article, below, must suffice. £2.85m in London court after ex-husband loses his bid to have divorce settled in Russia By Daily Mail Reporter 31st March 2011 A Russian wife accused […]
Delighted to have authored the chapter on International Child Abduction and Non-Hague Convention Countries in the Research Handbook on International Child Abduction, edited by Marilyn Freeman and Nicola Taylor. https://lnkd.in/eTvvgYQU
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 […]
Procedure May Trump Substance Jeremy D. Morley www.international-divorce.com When comparing possible jurisdictions for international family law cases, it is frequently important to focus on procedural matters and not simply to compare the rules and practices concerning the division of assets, maintenance and other substantive issues. For example, while it is important to know how different courts […]
Country Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Peru since 2007. In 2019, Peru continued to demonstrate a pattern of noncompliance. Specifically, the Peruvian Central Authority regularly failed to fulfill its responsibilities pursuant to the Convention and judicial authorities failed to regularly implement and comply with the provisions of the Convention. […]
Jeremy D. Morley* The Swiss Central Authority under the Hague Abduction Convention is the Federal Office of Justice in Berne. The Convention entered in force in Switzerland on January 1, 1984. The implementing legislation is the Federal Act of 21 December 2007 on International Child Abduction and the Hague Conventions on the Protection of Children […]
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 […]
With effect from May 1, 2012, the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction has entered into force between the United States and Singapore. This means that if a wrongful taking or retention of a child from Singapore to the United States or from the United States to Singapore occurred on […]
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Bulgaria has been declared by the State Department to be noncompliant 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 Bulgaria: · […]
The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. The Department of State leads the U.S. government’s efforts to prevent and resolve international parental child abductions, as part of the Department’s mission to advance the interests and safety of the American people. The 2021 Annual Report on International Child Abduction […]
Updated October 2017 Jeremy D. Morley 1. The U.S. State Department has determined – and has reported to Congress – that Egypt has demonstrated a persistent failure to work with the U.S. Central Authority to resolve cases of international parental child abduction. 2. The Superior Court of Washington for King County […]
Having just returned from a fabulous family wedding in the green fields of Cheshire, England I was struck by the sheer number of unmarried “partners” at the wedding. Several of the unmarried couples had delightful children and long-standing, committed relationships. All of this even though my family has generally been quite traditional in outlook. The […]
sdjewishworld.com /2015/03/02/prenuptial-agreements-come-to-israel/ By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — With more than 200 in attendance from both the Legal and Rabbinic worlds, Tzohar and The Israel Bar Association launched the new Prenuptial Agreement to protect and assist the future of Jewish marriage. “It’s the first time that a large group of rabbis have come together and approved […]
This story shows inherent risks of “self-help” in “re-kidnapping” internationally-abducted children. See my articles on preventing child visits to Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, other countries if parent anticipates non-return.
