INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations?
A common issue that arises in child custody cases relates to international travel. Issues such as international travel and obtaining a passport for a child generally fall under “legal custody.”...more
Narkis Golan, a US citizen married Isacco Saada, an Italian citizen while both were in Italy in August, 2015. While there they had a child 2016. Two years later, under the pretense of attending a wedding, Golan flew to the...more
On February 25, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Monasky v. Taglieri, holding that the determination of a child’s “habitual residence” for purposes of the Hague Convention depends on a totality-of-the-circumstances...more
On August 7 of 2017, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided a case under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Since we don’t see much child custody litigation in federal courts nor...more
When a child is removed from or retained in a country that is not a child's habitual residence a parent can seek to have the child returned to their habitual residence country under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects...more
Background on Child Abduction Cases Under the Hague Convention - The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“Hague Convention”) is an international treaty in which the signatory...more
Ever wonder what happens when a child is wrongfully taken across international borders? - What happens if a child who lives in the United States is wrongfully removed by a parent, taken to France, and kept there? ...more