O. v. O. 2002 SC 430

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The children were aged 9 and 7 respectively at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. The parents were married in Ireland in January 1981 and had six children. The application only concerned the youngest two children. The parents separated in March 1999, with the mother leaving the children with the father. On 10 June […]

?.L.K, 5. April 2002, 16. afdeling, B-409-02

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was 7 years old at the time of the alleged wrongful retention. She was born in England in 1994 and lived there until August 2000. The parents married in 1982 but divorced in 1997, when an English court decided that the girl should live with the mother. However, both parents retained […]

W. and B. v. H. (Child Abduction: Surrogacy) [2002] 1 FLR 1008

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The twin children were born in England to a surrogate mother. At the date of the hearing they were 3 months old and had spent all of their lives in England. The surrogacy agreement was made in California on 12 February 2001 between a married Californian couple and an English woman. It was agreed that […]

B. v. C.

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The case related to a boy who was aged 13 at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. The parents were married. The father, a United Kingdom citizen, adopted the mother’s two children of a previous relationship. The family moved to New Zealand in 1993. In February 1998 the parents separated and the father left […]

Fawcett v. McRoberts, 168 F.Supp.2d 595 (W.Va. 2001)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a boy, was seven years old at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. He had lived in Scotland all of his life. The parents were divorced and the father had been granted care of the boy and an older sister, the mother access. The parents were involved in ongoing litigation over custody […]

D. v. D. 2002 SC 33

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The case related to a boy aged almost 5 at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. The parents were married and had joint rights of custody. During the course of the marriage the mother had suffered from severe depression and had made several suicide attempts. The child had lived in Scotland, Germany and Switzerland. […]