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 […]
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 […]
Jeremy D. Morley Nature and Purpose of the Registry The Korean Family Registry is governed by Korea’s “Act on the Registration etc. of Family Relationships.” The purpose of the Act is defined in Article 1 as “to prescribe matters concerning the registration of establishment and changes in family relations such as the birth, marriage, death, […]
This editorial (see below) in Australia’s Courier-Mail criticizes the provisions in Australia’s recently-amended Family Law Act that call for equal shared parenting orders. The article is totally on target. However it does not address another unexpected consequence of the new law, which is that it has made it even harder than before for an expat […]
Israel’s divorce law requires that Jews in Israel must be divorced only in the Jewish religious courts. Clearly this discriminates against women since only a husband has the right to grant his wife a divorce (a “get”) of his own free will. This religious requirement leads to a host of further discriminatory consequences. The 1979 […]
Book Review – “International Family Law Practice” by Jeremy Morley Jeremy Morley’s book is aimed mainly at US family lawyers whose work, either frequently or occasionally, involves international elements. It is not only an important resource for such US lawyers, but it is also a very helpful introduction to international issues for family lawyers from […]
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 […]
In many cases, parents abduct their own children when marriages fail and return home where local laws protect them. In some cases the abducted children never see the other parent again.Child abduction is one of a parent’s worst fears, and for a growing number of parents around the world, this fear is being realized and […]
As has been recently reported by the U.S. State Department: · The Republic of Korea is one of only a handful of East Asian countries that has acceded to the Hague Abduction Convention. · The Republic of Korea acceded to the Convention in December 2012, and the Convention went into force for the Republic of […]
Jayanth Krishnan had an inter-faith wedding. But before the couple got married, they signed a prenuptial agreement stipulating that neither would force the other to change his or her religion in the future. However, two years down the line, Krishnan’s wife started putting pressure on him to change his religion. Krishnan promptly sought a divorce. […]
Jeremy D. Morley The U.K. Supreme Court has just issued an extremely important opinion concerning the grave risk of harm exception in a Hague abduction case. In the Matter of S (a Child) [2012] UKSC 10. The ruling is surprising in at least three respects. The first is that the Supreme Court bluntly castigated another […]
An Interview with Jeremy Morley – of International Family Law in NY In researching child relocation and abduction law, I came across Jeremy Morley. His website, www.international-divorce.com, was very informative about the subject – something lawyers are not always known for. I decided to call and interview Jeremy, as the subject of child abduction and relocation is currently […]
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 […]
