CA Rennes, 28 juin 2011, No de RG 11/02685

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Rights of Custody – Art. 3 It was not disputed that, under Mexican family law, the parents exercised over their children parental authority which can be forfeited, in the situations listed by law, pursuant to a court ruling. According to the mother, the father had forfeited parental authority but she did not provide evidence of […]

A.M.R.I. v. K.E.R., 2011 ONCA 417

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Acquiescence – Art. 13(1)(a) The Court noted that whilst delay was not generally sufficient to establish acquiescence, the exception still merited consideration. Grave Risk – Art. 13(1)(b) In the main part of its ruling the Court held that the child’s refugee status gave rise to a rebuttable presumption that her return to Mexico would expose […]

Duarte v. Bardales, 526 F.3d 563 (9th Cir. 2008)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The proceedings related to two children born in October 1996 and June 1998. Two older siblings, not subject of the proceedings, were born in October 1990 and October 1991. The parents, who never married, entered the United States of America from Mexico in 1990. In 2000, they separated and the mother took the four children […]

Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Garcia, 2007 FCA 75, [2008] 1 F.C.R. 322

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The proceedings related to a mother and two sons who came to Canada from Mexico and claimed refugee status under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). In June 2004 the Quebec Court of Appeal issued a non-return order in a Hague Convention application for return of one of the boys, on the basis that […]

CA Rouen, 9 mars 2006, No de RG 05/04340

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

L’affaire concernait un petit gar?on n? au Mexique en 2004. Ses parents ?taient mari?s et vivaient au Mexique. Le 7 juin 2005, la m?re alla en France avec l’enfant. Un mois plus tard, elle demanda le divorce. Le p?re demanda le retour de lenfant. Le 15 novembre 2005, le tribunal de grande instance de Rouen […]

Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe, 2 UF 115/02, 15 November 2002

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

L’enfant, un gar?on, ?tait n? en octobre 1998. Il ?tait ?g? de 3 ans 1/4 ? la date du non-retour dont le caract?re illicite ?tait all?gu?. Le p?re mexicain et la m?re allemande avaient v?cu au Mexique jusque dans les derniers mois de la grossesse, mais l’enfant ?tait n? en Allemagne. La paternit? de l’enfant […]

March v. Levine, 249 F.3d 462 (6th Cir. 2001)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The children, a boy and a girl, were 10 and 6 respectively at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. They had lived in both the United States and Mexico. The parents had been married, however the mother disappeared in 1996 and thereafter the father cared for the children alone. The maternal grandparents alleged that […]