international-child-abduction

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A896 Maria Elena Swett Urquieta v. John Francis Bowe Second Circuit 2025-03-17 Presumed Complete article-13-exception best-interests-analysis child-objections hague-convention international-child-abduction wrongful-retention Question not identified.
23-932 Minna-Marie Brandt v. Damian Caracciolo Fourth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied child-abduction circuit-court-split country-of-residence custody-rights hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law judicial-procedure treaty-interpretation wrongful-retention Did the Fourth Circuit below err in concluding —in conflict with the text of the Hague Convention and the cases of this Court and six other circuits—t…
23-5425 Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Thea Marie Rosasen Ninth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process emotional-abuse ex-parte-order habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-rights return-remedy According to the International Child Abduction Remedies Act ("ICARA ") 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601-11610 (2000) and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects o…
21-1060 Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas Sixth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied child-abduction family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law settled-purpose wrongful-retention In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habit…
21-825 Persephone Johnson Shon v. Bogdan Radu Ninth Circuit 2021-12-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) ameliorative-measures article-13b burden-of-proof child-abduction custody-dispute grave-risk hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction generally requires that children wrongfully removed or retained from their …
21-5740 Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz California 2021-09-21 Denied IFP child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal 1. Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish …
20-7518 In Re Jack Stone 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act custody-after-abduction damages due-process equal-protection international-child-abduction passport-issuance passport-reissuance visa-approval-denial visa-processing FIRST ISSUE THE QUESTIONS IN THIS ISSUE PERTAIN TO INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION, CUSTODY AFTER ABDUCTION AND THEREAFTER, FAILURE OF THE U.S. DEPART…
20-1034 Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada Second Circuit 2021-01-29 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (16)Relisted (3) ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora…
20-864 Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II Minnesota 2020-12-30 Denied child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Convention") requires that a Contracting State stay any child custod…
19-6310 Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights I. Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the child was wrongful under Articles 3 and 5 of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 …
18-935 Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (3) child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction requires that any child wrongfully removed from her country of "habitual re…
18-661 Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno Sixth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr…
18-5197 Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit Georgia 2018-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation 1. Did the state court of last resort err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the Respondent in the US, putting the …