?.L.K, 5. April 2002, 16. afdeling, B-409-02
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
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 […]
Re S. (A Child) (Abduction: Grave Risk of Harm) [2002] 3 FCR 43, [2002] EWCA Civ 908
The child, a girl, was 13 months old at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. She was born in Israel and prior to the removal had always lived there. The mother was born in the United Kingdom and had been living in Israel since 1995. The father was born in Australia and moved to […]
Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsr??tten), decision of 21 January 2002, Case number 7373-2001
The child, a boy, was 12 years of age at the time of the alleged wrongful retention. He had lived in England with his mother since the age of three. The mother had rights of custody, the father rights of access. In October 2001 mother and child went to Sweden for a short visit to […]
B. v. C.
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 […]
A.Q. v. J.Q., 12 December 2001, transcript, Outer House of the Court of Session
The children, a boy and a girl, were 11 _ and 9 _ respectively at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. They had lived in Germany all of their lives. The parents were separated and had commenced custody proceedings prior to the removal. On 4 April 2001 the Magistrates’ Court of Weinheim made a […]
Fawcett v. McRoberts, 168 F.Supp.2d 595 (W.Va. 2001)
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 […]
Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsr??tten), decision of 12 September 2001, Case number 7624-2000
The child, a boy, was 5 years of age at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. He had lived in both Sweden and England. The parents were not married but had joint rights of custody. The child lived in Sweden until April 1999 when his mother unilaterally took him to England. In May 1999 […]
D. v. D. 2002 SC 33
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. […]
Re B. (Children)(Abduction: New Evidence) [2001] 2 FCR 531
The application related to three children, aged almost 14, 12 and almost 10, at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. Until that moment they had spent their entire lives in New Zealand. The parents were divorced and in a separation agreement made in 1991 they had agreed to joint custody, albeit with the mother […]