The English Court of Appeal has just issued a significant ruling on the issue of consent in a Hague abduction case. In re P-J (Children) (Abduction: Consent), [2009] EWCA Civ 588; [2009] WLR (D) 207, dated June 23, 2009. It frequently happens that one parent tells the other parent that the or she can take […]
Karen Mazurkewich, Financial Post Published: Saturday, December 27, 2008 Francois Larivee is fighting for the return of his five-year-old son from Brazil. But being on the right side of the law is cold comfort to the 38-year-old businessman. He has won two court decisions in Brazil, and has followed The Hague Convention on the Civil […]
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 […]
London Times article citing me and other N.Y. lawyers: The Times, July 11, 2008 Tom Bawden in New York America’s credit crunch is putting the squeeze on the marriages of New York’s superwealthy as a record number of couples with $10 million or more in assets sue for divorce. The New York lawyer Raoul Felder, […]
To the overwhelming elation and relief of our client, a terrified and panic-stricken Chinese mother, we succeeded recently in having a baby intercepted at an airport exit gate as his father was about to abduct him from the United States to India. Mother’s joy at being reunited with her lost child capped our office’s relentless […]
The Superior Court in Ontario, Canada relied in substantial part on the expert evidence of Jeremy D. Morley as to family law in India in ruling that the father of a four-year-old child living in Ontario should not be permitted to take the child on a family visit to India. Mahadevan v. Shankar, issued October […]
The U.S. Senate has today passed a “Bipartisan Resolution Calls on Countries to Do More to Prevent and Resolve Cases of Children Abducted by Parents Across International Borders.” The Resolution should be useful when seeking to prevent potential abduction to Japan, India, and Egypt, since those countries are specifically “reprimanded.” The Resolution also reinforces claims […]
There are reports from Norway of an international re-abduction case involving the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, the Norwegian Embassy in Morocco and Special Forces officers of the Norwegian Navy. The case has led to an international crisis between Morocco and Norway. Morocco is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International […]
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, […]
We have commented previously on the abusive “498a Law” that was well-intentioned in its enactment but which is frequently misused in India as a means of blackmailing non-resident Indian husbands. Please see: The Home Ministry of the Government of India has requested the Law Commission of India “to consider whether any amendments to s.498A of […]
It is often stated that a husband’s promise to pay money, sometimes called a “mahr” or a “sadaq”, pursuant to an Islamic marriage contract, sometimes called a “nikkah nama”, is enforceable in a U.S. court under principles of regular contract law, even though such agreements are not enforceable as prenuptial agreements. What arguments may be […]
Here is an update about an international child abduction case in which we provided extensive and continuing behind-the-scenes strategic advice to the left-behind father and his local lawyers. Most parental child abductions to Japan end up very badly. This is an exception to the rule. Mother who abducted daughter to Japan avoids prison By Bruce […]
Turkey and International Child Abduction by Jeremy Morley Turkey has a record of failing to comply with international norms concerning the return of internationally abducted children and the Hague Abduction Convention. Courts in Turkey have frequently insisted that a Hague case requires the courts to conduct a full and lengthy “best interests” evaluation. Such […]
by Jeremy D. Morley People with assets and international connections who are contemplating a divorce, as well as the spouses of such people, should first consult us for Strategic International Divorce Planning advice. Here is what we do for a motivated client (always working with local counsel as appropriate): 1. Analyze the Family’s Entire Economic […]
