Oct 17, 2022 | Child abduction, Spain
The defense of the child in Spanish return proceedings In the Spanish legal system, the guardian ad litem is not used in abduction cases nor in any other family conflicts, as parental responsibility orders. This doesn’t mean the child is not protected nor defended at...
Sep 16, 2022 | Child abduction, U.S., US - South Carolina
By Johanthan W. Lounsburry – United States – Each year some parents are faced with a devastating reality: their partner has taken their child to another country and is refusing to return. They are left-behind and at a loss of what do. Not only is this...
Jul 28, 2022 | Child abduction
11 Red flags for parental child abduction These are possible signs that the other parent will abduct the child, by taking it to another country, or by not returning the child from another country: 1. Past behaviour An indicator may be that in the past with this child...
Jul 23, 2022 | Child abduction, U.S. case law
In Golan v. Saada the Supreme Court ruled that a court is not required to examine all possible ameliorative measures before denying a Hague Convention petition for return of a child to a foreign country once the court has found that return would expose the child to a...
Jul 8, 2022 | Child abduction, Martine Wernsen, The Netherlands case law
12 months of suspended prison sentence for the mother who withdrew her three-year-old daughter from the father’s legal custody for 14 months. Now she gets a suspended prison sentence with probation and she must pay damages. District Court of Gelderland July 1...
Jun 4, 2022 | Child abduction, Germany case law
Return to Madrid ? No, to Spain. Koblenz Higher Regional Court, Germany 11 March 2020, 13 UF 67/206 The child was born in Trier, Germany, in March 2018. In May 2018, the father acknowledged paternity of the child. In early July 2018, the family moved to Spain and from...
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