The U.S. State Department has just issued its 2017 Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction under the International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act (ICAPRA). The following is the Country Summary and related information from the twelfth country listed as “Noncompliant” in the report, Romania: Country Summary: The United States and Romania have been […]
Jeremy D. Morley* Determining the child’s “habitual residence” is a threshold issue in any case brought pursuant to the Hague Convention. It is often outcome-determinative because, if the court concludes that the country from which the child was removed was not the country of the child’s habitual residence, the Convention will not apply and the […]
This article from ABC News is based in part on an interview with me. Notwithstanding the information in the article, there are some things that can be done in case of child abduction to Japan, though rarely using the Japanese “system.” Kaya Wong’s parents never imagined they would be able to have a baby. Born […]
Jeremy D. Morley An appeal court in New York has issued an important ruling on the issue of whether a woman who relocates to another state while she is pregnant is barred from having a future custody case being heard in the new location. The Appellate Division, First Department of New York’s Supreme Court rejected […]
The U.S. State Department has just issued its 2017 Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction under the International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act (ICAPRA). The following is the Country Summary and related information from the fifth country listed as “Noncompliant” in the report, Ecuador: Country Summary: The United States and Ecuador have been […]
By Jeremy D. Morley Iran’s parliament has passed legislation this week that expressly authorizes “temporary marriages” and requires their registration only in limited circumstances, primarily if the woman becomes pregnant. The law allows men to have as many sexual partners as they want, sanctioned by sharia law under the term “temporary marriage”. Sex outside marriage […]
Jeremy D. Morley A key role of the international family lawyer is to review the ““big picture”” of an actual or proposed family law case that has an international component. In most such cases the international family lawyer will work with local lawyers in the various jurisdictions. While the international family lawyer will contribute […]
Jeremy D. Morley Relying on my expert testimony as to the great difficulty of returning abducted children from the country of Jordan, and in light of other serious risk factors of potential international child abduction, the Chancery Court of Harrison County, Mississippi has refused to permit unsupervised visitation by a Jordanian father employed in the […]
By Kirsten Brown (AXcess News) Washington – Four fathers quietly filed into a theater to watch “Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story,” a documentary about North Korea’s kidnapping of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s. If the names Walter Benda, Patrick Braden, Chris Kenyon and Paul Toland don’t sound Japanese, it’s because they’re not. But […]
Overseas custody rights: American parents struggle to reunite with children in JapanBy Charlie Reed, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Tuesday, August 4, 2009 It’s been six years, three weeks and one day since Navy Cmdr. Paul Toland last saw his only child, Erika — one of 118 Japanese-American children living in Japan and cut off […]
With divorce increasingly commonplace in China, prenuptial agreements are becoming a trend in order to avoid legal battles over property in the event of a breakup. The trend is reflected in the booming business of Yao Xiangyang (a pseudonym), a lawyer in southern China’s Guangdong province who began to move into the area of prenuptial […]
See the article below on Japan. Dateline NBC will be airing a piece on the case of my client, Christopher Savoie, this Sunday, May 9 at 7:00 pm EST. US lawmakers threaten Japan on child custody (AFP) WASHINGTON — US lawmakers threatened to punish Japan unless it worked to reunite hundreds of children with foreign parents, […]
Jeremy D. Morley 1. Nicaragua is a signatory to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. However, the United States is not partnered with Nicaragua under the Convention. There are no bilateral agreements in force between Nicaragua and the United States concerning international parental child abduction. 2. The State Department has determined […]
Fūkibinran. Now that is a Japanese expression you don’t see around much these days. I bet many young Japanese readers don’t even know how to read the four kanji that make up this word: 風紀紊乱. It means something akin to “an affront to public morality,” “a breakdown in customary discipline” or, perhaps, “compromising love relations.” […]
