Honda Law Office
2017 (Ju) No. 2015 Case of a request for Habeas Corpus relief
The parents are both Japanese nationals. After their marriage, they first resided in Japan. The first son was born there in 1996 and the daughter in 1998. After the entire family moved to the United States, the second son was born there in 2004. He is a national of Japan and the United States. In […]
2017 (Kyo) No. 9 Case on Appeal with Permission against Modification of Final Order
The parents are an American father and a Japanese mother who were married and living in the United States. In July 2014, the mother removed their four children to Japan when the elder twins were 11 years and 7 months old and the younger twins 6 years and 5 months old. In breach of her […]
2017 (Ra) No. 525 Appeal case against an order to return the child
The father is a United States national, the mother a Japanese national. They met in Japan while the father was serving for a United States military base and married in Japan in 2012. The couple lived with the mother’s son from her previous marriage in Japan. The father returned to the United States, followed by […]
2017 (Ra) No. 742 Appeal case against an order of the return of a child
Grave Risk – Art. 13(1)(b) Firstly, the mother contended that the father was exercising violence, creating a grave risk of harm to her life and body, and may well continue exercising such violence in a way that would expose the daughter to psychological harm by witnessing it (given that the Singaporean personal protection order allegedly […]
2016 (Ra) No. 622 Appeal case against dismissal of case seeking return of a child
Consent – Art. 13(1)(a) The Osaka High Court judges held that, despite the assertion of the mother that the father consented to or acquiesced in the removal of the child to Japan, there was no evidence for this assertion. The father had consented only to the mother going to Japan with the child for a […]
2015 (Ra) No. 491 Case on Appeal against a return order
Objections of the Child to a Return – Art. 13(2) The father argued that B and D had attained an age and degree of maturity at which it is appropriate to take account of their views, and that they objected to being returned to the state of their habitual residence even though their objections primarily […]
LPQ v LYW [2014] HKCU 2976
The case concerned two children, born in 2008 and 2013 to married parents. The mother held a Chinese mainland passport and was working in Japan. The father held a Hong Kong passport and operated a procurement business, on a part-time basis, between Hong Kong and Japan. In April 2008, the father moved to Japan under […]
Re R (A Child) [2014] EWHC 2802 (Fam)
The proceedings related to a Japanese child aged 7 who was born to Japanese parents. The parents married in September 2005 and separated in April 2013, whereupon they reached an agreement through mediation with the Family Court in Tokyo. This was entered onto the court record and provided that the mother would have primary care, […]
Shortridge-Tsuchiya v. Tsuchiya, 2009 BCSC 541, [2009] B.C.W.L.D. 4138
The child, a boy, was 7 years of age at the time of alleged wrongful removal. He had been born in Japan to his Japanese father and Canadian mother. The child had Canadian and Japanese citizenship and was fluent in English and Japanese. In December 2007 the father told the mother that he would seek […]
