We have represented many international clients who have entered into marriage contracts or prenuptial agreements with Japanese spouses. We always work in collaboration with Japanese counsel in such matters as appropriate and as instructed by our clients. Prenuptial agreements are not common in Japan. They have never been a part of Japanese culture, even for […]
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Peru has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for the last nine years. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken the following actions in […]
Lawyers representing international clients who plan to marry and who want the protection of a prenuptial agreement should always consider the international ramifications of any proposed agreement. While conventional domestic prenuptial agreements raise grave malpractice concerns for family lawyers, the concerns become a hazardous minefield when the issues are multi-jurisdictional. In many ways the world […]
By Jeremy D. Morley International family law is expanding as people travel more and spend time with people from different countries. International personal relationships produce an abundance of conflict and litigation. It is hard enough for people to live together when they share a similar background, but it is far harder when they are from […]
In an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in May 2006, this author vehemently protested what he asserted was Germany’s noncompliance with its treaty obligations under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. http://www.international-divorce.com/germany_-_open_letter.htm The letter focused on a pattern of lengthy delays and stalling that was preventing […]
I just found this ruling from a while back by a judge in Connecticut on the impact of my testimony as an expert witness on India law and practice. “We, normally in these matters, do not have the opportunity to hear from an expert witness, particularly someone as learned and as experienced in what I’ll […]
by Jeremy Morley It is of the essence of the Hague Abduction Convention that cases brought under it should be handled and concluded expeditiously. The target of six weeks set forth in the Convention itself is made even more specific in the Brussels II bis Regulation governing abductions within the European Union. Unfortunately, lengthy judicial […]
Newspapers around the world have carried an article entitled “Japan, India pressed to curb child abductions” that calls attention to the fact that both countries violate human rights norms by failing to provide remedies for international child abduction. The articles describe the circumstances of several of my clients and state that, “Jeremy Morley, a New […]
We are pleased to advise that, after a Family Court in California reviewed my lengthy and apparently persuasive expert report on the abduction risks of allowing a child’s visit to Mexico, and upon the Court then ruling that it would admit my expert testimony, the other parent’s application for an order to compel such a […]
by Jeremy D. Morley* Many children whose parents are separated are spending this summer away from home on vacation in the country of origin of one of their parents. Usually such visits are great, providing excellent and important benefits to the children and their parents. […]
We are pleased to report that the Superior Court in Orange County, California has expressly relied upon my expert report on Chinese family law. The Court ruled that a father who was relocating to China should not be permitted to take his child for a visit to that country, in the face of opposition by […]
Jeremy D. Morley www.international-divorce.com Even if the American woman whose ex-husband is reportedly not letting her leave Saudi Arabia escapes, she could be forced to leave her 4-year-old daughter behind Business Insider. Article by Ashley Collman, 3-7-19 On Tuesday, The New York Times published a report on Bethany Vierra, a 31-year-old American woman whose cousin said she has […]
Jeremy D. Morley We just won a Hague Abduction Convention case in Sweden, working with Swedish counsel, and obtained an order to return the abducted children to Japan. Of the greatest importance, the Swedish court granted our express application that our client, the left-behind parent, is the parent who will take the children back to […]
The Singapore Court of Appeal has just rendered a weighty and well-reasoned decision on the enforceability of prenuptial agreements in the case of TQ v TR, [2009] SGCA 6 (Feb. 3, 2009). The opinion is especially important for its analysis of the (substantial) weight to be given in Singapore to foreign prenuptial agreements as compared […]
