The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Ecuador has been declared by the State Department to be noncompliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for each and every year for the past eight years. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has […]
For more than three years, Deepa Topiwalla fell asleep every night wondering where her young son was. She doesn’t have to wonder anymore. He sleeps in her bedroom in a small bed next to hers. After a court battle that took her halfway across the world, she has returned home to Cary with her son, […]
Jeremy D. Morley On June 28, 2017 Monaco adopted a new Law on Private International Law. It sets forth the rules concerning divorce jurisdiction, authorizes spousal selection of the law to govern marital regimes, and provides rules concerning the applicable law concerning maintenance. An informal translation of such provisions is as follows: No. 1448 – […]
Here is the full text of House Resolution 1326, passed almost unanimously by the U.S. House of Representatives today, September 29, 2010, condemning Japan’s “abduction and wrongful retention” of children — including the children of several of my clients — and urging Japan to act “immediately” to resolve cases involving U.S. parents. 111th CONGRESS, 2d Session, H. RES. […]
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Problems arising from void or voidable marriages often do not create issues until many years after the fact and in quite expected ways. Such was the experience of one Kanadi Mohamed Ali, an Israeli citizen whose conviction for knowingly making a false statement under oath relating to naturalization, citizenship, or registry of aliens in violation […]
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 United States has not accepted the accession made by Belarus in 1998 to the Hague Abduction Convention (the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction). This means that the Convention is not in force between the two countries. Therefore, the return remedies set forth in the Convention cannot be utilized […]
Jeremy D. Morley Upon re-reading the recent decision of the Supreme […]
Jeremy D. Morley Japan adopted the Hague Abduction Convention with effect from April 1, 2014. Before then, its reputation as a safe haven for international child abduction was almost universal. Japan yielded to international pressure by signing the Convention but its compliance with the treaty is questionable. A few cases have been initiated in Japan […]
An Ohio court has reportedly ruled that a promise made as part of a mahr – a dowry gift given by the groom to his bride upon an Islamic marriage – could not be enforced at law. The Ohio Case The case in Ohio stemmed from the marriage of a Muslim couple – the bride […]
Country Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Morocco since 2012. In 2017, Morocco demonstrated a pattern of noncompliance. Specifically, the Moroccan Central Authority and law enforcement authorities in Morocco failed to take appropriate steps to locate a child in one case for more than one year after a Convention […]
The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. Below is our fourth post in a series here focusing on the twelve countries classified as “demonstrating patterns of noncompliance.” Today’s country is China. Country Summary: China does not adhere to any protocols with respect to international parental child abduction. In […]
Here is the full text of House Resolution 1326, passed almost unanimously by the U.S. House of Representatives today, September 29, 2010, condemning Japan’s “abduction and wrongful retention” of children — including the children of several of my clients — and urging Japan to act “immediately” to resolve cases involving U.S. parents. 111th CONGRESS, 2d Session, H. RES. […]
