Family application 042273/99 DR. Z.M. v. R.M.P.

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Compensation would be awarded to the applicant father to cover the cost of locating the child, hiring a lawyer in Israel and the lawyer’s fees. Compensation was not awarded for emotional distress because the damage was not sufficiently serious, bearing in mind that the child was returned.

Sabeahat v. Sabihat FS-18-0099

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Interpretation of the Convention The taking parent bears the evidentiary burden to satisfy the court that the circumstances of the case qualify under Article 13(1)(b) or Article 20 as an exception. However, in the evidence called at the hearing of the mother’s application for refugee status, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) found […]

FE v YE [2017] EWHC 2165 (Fam)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The parents married in June 1993 and have four children. The current application concerns two of the children, twins, aged 7. The family lived in Israel until June 2016, when the mother, the daughter and the twins went on holiday to Thailand. They did not return when booked to do so in July, 2016 and […]

Leave for Family Appeal 6390/13, Plonit v Ploni

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The mother, an Israeli citizen, and the father, a citizen and resident of Sweden, lived together in Sweden. They had two children together, D. (born in 2002; at the time of the proceedings aged 11 and a half) and A. (born in 2007, at the time of the proceedings aged 6 and a half). In […]

Anonymous V. Anonymous 7784/12

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Parties married in Israel, 1995. In 2002, the family moved to Canada. A son was born in Israel in 1997 and in 2005 twins were born in Canada. The parties divorced in Canada in July 2011. In August, 2011 the Court in British Columbia issued a judgment granting the request of the mother to relocate […]