CA Paris, 13 avril 2012, No de RG 12/0617
The case concerned two girls, born in 1998 and 2000, among four siblings. Their two elder brothers were of full age. The family lived in Belgium. In 2010, the parents divorced; parental authority was then exercised jointly but the daughters’ residence was set at their father’s home in Belgium. In June 2011, the father moved […]
Cass Civ 1?re, 14 mars 2012, N? de pourvoi 11-17.011
The case concerned two children born in France in 2003 and 2004. In 2006, the family moved to Chile. The parents separated in April 2008. On 3 June 2010, the children travelled to France with their mother, who petitioned for divorce immediately on arrival. On 8 June 2010, the Santiago Court of Appeal upheld a […]
Cass Civ 1?re, 29 f?vrier 2012, N? de pourvoi 11-15.613
Rights of Custody – Art. 3 The mother claimed among other pleas that a removal was wrongful if it occurred in breach of a right of custody granted by the law of the State of the child’s habitual residence immediately before its removal. But while the Court of Appeal had held that the child’s habitual […]
CA Agen, 1 d?cembre 2011, No de RG 11/01437
The case concerned a child born in Australia in 2005. After the parents separated in 2009, the parties entered in April 2010 into an agreement settling the child’s living conditions and the periods when he would travel to France with his mother alone or with both parents. It was also specified that the mother would […]
CA Lyon, 19 septembre 2011, No de RG 11/02919
The application concerned two children born in Germany in 1996 and 1999. After the parents’ separation, the children’s habitual residence had been set by a court at the father’s domicile in Germany. In August 2010, the mother refused to allow the children to return to Germany after exercising her right of access, and unilaterally set […]
L.L. c. C.G., Droit de la famille 112106, Cour sup?rieure de Qu?bec 11 juillet 2011, 2011 QCCS 3612
Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The Court observed that the concept of habitual residence is defined neither by the Convention nor by the Act implementing it in Canadian law, and that the Civil Code of Quebec provides no further particulars. The Court referred to the comments of Judge Chamberland according to whom: “a child’s “habitual […]
CA Bordeaux, 28 juin 2011, No de RG 11/01062
The case concerned a child born in 2004 to Portuguese parents living together in France since 2003. In August 2008, during the family’s holiday in Portugal, the parents quarreled and separated. The father returned to France alone, and the mother and child remained in Portugal. The father brought action before a Portuguese court which, in […]
CA Rennes, 28 juin 2011, No de RG 11/02685
Rights of Custody – Art. 3 It was not disputed that, under Mexican family law, the parents exercised over their children parental authority which can be forfeited, in the situations listed by law, pursuant to a court ruling. According to the mother, the father had forfeited parental authority but she did not provide evidence of […]
Mercredi v. Chaffe [2011] EWCA Civ. 272
The proceedings related to a child born in England in August 2009 to a French mother from the overseas d?partement of the island of R?union and a British father. The parents were not married and separated a week after the birth. On 7 October 2009 the mother took the child to R?union. At that time […]
CA Paris, 17 f?vrier 2011, No de RG 11/00507
The case concerned a child born in 2009. After her marriage to the father, the mother lived in France with the child, cohabiting with the father in Germany during monthly stays from October to December 2009. She was committed to a psychiatric institution in December in Germany and then returned to France alone, the child […]
