Aug 23, 2023 | Child abduction, U.S.
Judges are permitted to interview children in their parents’ Hague Abduction Convention cases in the United States. In fact, this is a common way to elicit a child’s views (and to assess their maturity) in recent years. But, should judges be conducting these...
Jun 21, 2023 | Blog, Child abduction, Home-blog, U.S.
Every year, sometime between April and June, the U.S. Department of State publishes a statutorily mandated report outlining statistics on every case of child abduction reported to their agency in the past calendar year. This report, required by the International Child...
Jun 9, 2023 | Child abduction, U.S., U.S. New York, U.S. New York case law
The Hague Abduction Convention or the UCCJEA? Which should we use? by Jeremy D. Morley If a child is abducted to the United States from a country that is a party to the Hague Abduction Convention, the left-behind parent usually has a choice of seeking the child’s...
Mar 19, 2023 | Blog, Child abduction, U.S.
U.S. Government Programs to Prevent Child Abduction There are two key U.S. government programs designed to prevent a parent’s abduction of their child. Prevent Abduction program The first program is the Prevent Abduction program. The United States has no exit...
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...
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