Cass Civ 1?re, 20 mars 2013, No de RG 12-19382

L’affaire concernait deux enfants n?es en 2004 et 2010 respectivement de parents fran?ais mari?s. La famille vivait en Angleterre depuis 2007. Fin 2009, la m?re alla vivre en France avec l’a?n?e peu avant d’accoucher d’une petite fille. Le 2 juillet 2010, les enfants furent plac?es sous l’autorit? de la High Court de Londres et le […]
Chafin v. Chafin, 133 S. Ct. 1017, 185 L. Ed. 2d 1 (2013)

El procedimiento versaba sobre una ni?a nacida en 2007 de padre estadounidense y madre brit?nica. Estos hab?an contra?do matrimonio en 2006 cuando el padre, miembro del ej?rcito de los Estados Unidos, se encontraba destinado en Alemania. Despu?s del nacimiento de la ni?a, fue enviado a Afganist?n y la madre llev? a la ni?a a Escocia. […]
Tribunal d’arrondissement de Luxembourg, 28 novembre 2012, R?f?r? No 821/2012

R?sidence habituelle – art. 3 Relevant que l’enfant ?tait n?e et avait grandi en Grande-Bretagne jusqu’au moment du d?placement au Luxembourg, le juge en conclut que l’enfant y avait sa r?sidence habituelle. Droit de garde – art. 3 La grand-m?re maternelle et la m?re all?guaient que le p?re n’exer?ait pas la garde effective de l’enfant […]
Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki, decision 2207, 3 December 2012

The proceedings concerned a child born in England in August 2010 to a British father and a Greek mother. The parents had met in the United Kingdom in 2007 and started cohabiting from May 2008; they never married. The father worked full time and the mother cared for the child, assisted occasionally by a baby […]
Shabbir Ali Jusab v. Anaar Osman Gamrai and the Hon. Attorney General, Civil Application No Sup 1 of 2012

The proceedings concerned a child born in the United Kingdom in May 2005 to a British father and Kenyan mother. The couple had married in Nairobi in April 2005 and thereafter settled in the United Kingdom. On 30 November 2007, the mother travelled with the child to Kenya. The circumstances of the trip were in […]
Lozano v. Alvarez, 697 F.3d 41 (2nd Cir. 2012)

The proceedings concerned a child born in October 2005 to Colombian parents who had met and lived together in London. The parents never married. At trial, the District Court found that the father had mistreated the mother in some way and that the child had been exposed to, and negatively affected by, the problems in […]
RCL v. APBL [2012] NZHC 1292

The proceedings concerned children, both boys, born in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2006 and 4 November 2007. The parents, both originally from New Zealand, had relocated to the United Kingdom in mid 2001, and had married in August 2002. The parents divorced on 23 March 2010. In May 2010, following mediation, the parents […]
Re S. (A Child) (Abduction: Rights of Custody) [2012] UKSC 10, [2012] 2 A.C. 257

The application concerned a child born on 13 November 2009 in Australia to an Australian father and a mother with dual British and Australian nationality. The parties were not married but had lived together between October 2008 and January 2011. Before meeting the mother, the father had been a heroin addict and between 2009 and […]
A, Petitioner [2011] CSOH 215

The application concerned two children, a boy aged eleven and a girl aged five, born to a Scottish mother and a Spanish father. The elder child was born in the United States of America, the younger child in Scotland. The family were habitually resident in Spain and lived together in an apartment. The parents were […]
Re J (Abduction: Children’s Objections) [2011] EWCA Civ 1448, [2012] 1 F.L.R. 457

The proceedings related to children born in Poland in 1996, 1998 and 2001. The Polish parents had married in April 1996 and separated in August 2005. In subsequent proceedings, the Court in Zamosc, Poland awarded custody to the father and contact to the mother. Thereafter the mother relocated to the United Kingdom. In September 2010, […]