A Child is Missing: The International Child Abduction Blog

In "A Child is Missing" we report all Federal Hague Convention Child Abduction Cases decided to March 2020, all Second Circuit and Circuit Courts of Appeals cases decided since March 1, 2020, and selected district court cases decided since March 1, 2020. We also provide information to help legal practitioners understand the basic issues, discover what questions to ask and learn where to look for more information when there is a child abduction that crosses country boarders.

What this Blog is About

This blog is dedicated to all of those parents, relatives and friends of persons whose children are missing and have been abducted by a parent, to another country. The Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, commonly referred to as the Hague Convention, established procedures to enable parents to obtain the prompt return, to their country of habitual residence, of children who have been unlawfully removed or retained in another country. In this blog we will focus on providing information with regard to what to do where there is a child abduction that crosses country boarders.

Bari Brandes Corbin and Evan B. Brandes are regular contributors to this blog. Bari Brandes Corbin, of the New York Bar, is co-author of Law and the Family New York, Second Edition, Revised, Volumes 5 & 6 (Thomson-Reuters). Evan B. Brandes is a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bars, and a Solicitor in New South Wales, Australia . The authors write the annual updates to Law and the Family New York, Second Edition Revised, and Law and the Family New York Forms.

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Recent Hague Convention District Court Cases - Pflucker v Warms, 2021 WL 4593824 ( M.D. Florida, 2021) [Peru][Petition denied][Habitual Residence][Consent and acquiescence defense]

Recent Hague Convention District Court Cases - Oliva v Espinoza, 2021 WL 4554579 ( S.D. California, 2021) [Mexico][Petition denied][Habitual residence][ Wrongful retention]