1Ob163/09s, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The daughter was born in Austria in 2000. 3 months later, after the parent’s wedding, the family returned to settle in Spain. The father started isolating the mother and set up a sectarian movement, considering himself to be a messenger of God. He started to beat the mother, always in the presence of the child, […]

1Ob176/09b, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The case concerned twins of a Franco-Austrian mother and French father who were not married. The family had lived in France until December 2008. The father was violent towards the mother but it had not been demonstrated that he had been violent towards the children, or that he had sexually abused them. The mother took […]

9Ob59/09f, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child was born in 2004 in the United States of America. Her parents were opera singers and had joint custody. The child lived in California for three years and then in Pennsylvania for some time at her grandparents’ home, always with her parents. On 14 September 2007 the family left for Austria, where it […]

6Ob181/09z, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

L’affaire concernait un enfant n? en 1993 et qui vivait en Espagne. A une date non pr?cis?e, le p?re avait emmen? l’enfant en Autriche. Le p?re et l’enfant saisirent la justice autrichienne d’une demande tendant ? ce que la garde soit retir?e ? la m?re et accord?e au p?re. La m?re forma un recours devant […]

2Ob103/09z, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Risque grave – art. 13(1)(b) Le p?re contestait une grande partie des constatations de la cour d’appel et en particulier niait l’id?e qu’une mise en danger du bien ?tre de l’enfant r?sulterait d’un retour ? Santorin et d’une s?paration de sa m?re. La Cour supr?me observa que la cour d’appel avait ?galement consid?r? qu’un retour […]

Djemba v. Ekwe, [2009] O.J. 2133

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Habitual Residence – Art. 3 There was strong evidence the children were habitually resident in Austria immediately before their mother brought them to Canada. They had been living in Vienna with their father for eight months. Their mother also lived there during the majority of that period and the children spent roughly equal time with […]

2Ob78/09y, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The habitual residence did not depend on the intention to stay permanently at one place but rather on the issue of where the person concerned chose to centre his/her economic and social existence. It is therefore appropriate to look at the practical, factual relationships of the person at his/her place […]

5Ob17/08y, Oberster Gerichtshof, 1/4/2008

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

L’affaire concernait quatre enfants n?s en 1992, 1996, 1999 et 2001 de parents allemands. Les parents ?taient mari?s. Le 19 mai 2007, la m?re quitta le domicile conjugal et partit s’installer en Autriche avec les enfants. Son avocat informa le p?re moins d’une semaine plus tard qu’elle le quittait et allait provisoirement vivre avec les […]

3Ob89/05t, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Les enfants en cause ?taient n?s en 2001 et 2003. La famille vivait en Italie. En juillet 2004, la m?re alla passer trois semaines de vacances avec les enfants en Autriche, aupr?s de ses parents. La nuit suivant leur retour en Italie, ? la suite d’une dispute, la m?re annon?a au p?re, qu’elle estimait tyrannique, […]

8Ob121/03g, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a boy, and his parents, had Serbian nationality. The parents were divorced in Belgrade on 9 March 2000, and the mother obtained custody of the child. After the divorce, the child had lived either with his mother in Austria, or with his maternal grandparents in Serbia. From October to December 2000, the father […]