Korea’s top court has ruled that sexual relations outside marriage committed during consensual divorce proceedings was not a criminal act. Under current Korean law, adulterous relations are considered a criminal act and those found guilty can receive jail sentences of up to two years. The Supreme Court overruled a lower court’s conviction of a 57-year-old […]
We have previously expressed concerns about the impact of Australian child custody law on international family law situations. See: http://www.internationalfamilylawfirm.com/2008/11/australias-child-custody-law.html http://www.internationalfamilylawfirm.com/2008/06/australian-child-relocation-abduction.html http://www.internationalfamilylawfirm.com/2006/12/australia-child-relocation.html Now, an Australian Institute of Family Studies report confirms that there is a real problem. Our concern is that the problem is often greatly enhanced in international cases. Children ‘at risk’ in shared […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Zaid Ibrahim lamented today the lack of empathy among fellow Malay-Muslims towards non-Muslims caught in inter-religious child custody tussles. The former de facto law minister pleaded with the Malay-Muslim majority to put themselves in a non-Muslim’s shoes and to imagine if hypothetically, the law allowed a non-Muslim parent to convert a Muslim […]
I reported in 2011 that “Having worked on international child custody matters concerning Hungary for several years, and having consulted with Hungarian counsel on such issues, it is unfortunately clear that Hungary does not comply with its obligation under the Hague Abduction Convention to promptly return children who are wrongfully taken to Hungary or retained […]
Like the United States, England has no exit controls. This means that one parent (or conceivably even a stranger) can take a child out of the country without the consent of the other parent. The police forces in Humberside, England have announced their intention to crack down on this problem. It is a model that […]
Jeremy D. Morley www.international-divorce.com The Court of Appeals of Washington State, Division One, has issued a Commissioner’s Ruling refusing to allow discretionary review of a lower court ruling that held – based on the expert evidence of international family lawyer Jeremy D. Morley, as well as another expert – that Egypt’s child custody laws […]
by Jeremy D. Morley(1) “Mirror” orders can be a useful tool in the arsenal of lawyers who handle cases concerning international child travel and the prevention of potential international child abduction. Increasingly courts are being asked to enjoin parents from taking children overseas because of a parent’s fear that the children will not be […]
In a recent Nevada case, I was asked to testify as an expert concerning the risk of a child’s international travel to Bali, Indonesia. The Nevada Court relied upon my expert testimony as to Indonesian law and practices concerning child abduction. Indonesia is not a signatory to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, and […]
Drafting prenuptial agreements is always challenging but the complexities are greatly magnified when the clients are international, whether in their citizenship, the location of assets, their employment or their residency, or because such international connections are anticipated or reasonably on the horizon. In such situations lawyers have a responsibility to consider the impact of the […]
Britain has initiated a concerted effort to stem the number of forced marriages in that country. A new law – the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007– will come into force there next month. A “forced marriage” is one in which a party is married without his or her consent or against his or her […]
The article below in today’s Daily Telegraph illustrates the grave dangers that may arise when children visit Russia: An 11-year-old British girl has been left stranded in Russia after her biological father obtained a Court Order preventing her from leaving the country until she is 18. Victoria Osborne, who was visiting her grandmother in Saratov […]
The Indian Supreme Court debated international child abduction last week in the context of a petition filed some years ago by a U.S. NGO demanding guideline to counter cross-border parental child abduction. Central to the debate, it appears, was my expert testimony about Indian law in a Canadian case. The petitioners explained to the Indian Supreme Court that, […]
Colorado Lawyer February, 2013 Department Reviews of Legal Resources Book Review *60 THE HAGUE ABDUCTION CONVENTION: PRACTICAL ISSUES AND PROCEDURES FOR FAMILY LAWYERS BY JEREMY D. MORLEY 404 PP.; $149 ABA PUBLISHING, 2012 321 N. CLARK ST., CHICAGO, IL 60610-4714 (800) 285-2221; WWW.ABABOOKS.ORG Review of Morley’s The Hague Abduction Convention Here is a review of […]
This article appears in the July 2010 issue of the ABA Journal Christopher Savoie got the kind of telephone call that terrifies a parent on Aug. 12, 2008. The school where his two young children attended classes wanted him to know that they had not shown up that day. But Savoie’s first thought was not […]
