Family Case 52595-02-20 The Father vs. the Mother

KG Berlin – 16 UF 22/20 – 6 April 2020

In the order issued by Pankow/Wei??ensee Local Court (File ref.: 13 F 8440/19, INCADAT Case No 1473), the mother was obliged to return the child to the district where the father was resident in the USA. The reasoning provided by the court was that the mother was wrongfully retaining the child in Berlin following a […]
ECLI: NL: RBDHA: 2020: 2861

Kirn v. Kirn, 2020 ONSC 2159

WALPOLE & SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITIES AND JUSTICE [2020] FamCAFC 65

Onuoha v. Onuoha, 2020 ONSC 1815

Order issued by Koblenz Higher Regional Court ? 13 UF 67/20

The child was born in Trier, Germany, in March 2018. In May 2018, the father acknowledged paternity of the child. In early July 2018, the family moved to Spain and from December 2018 onwards, rented an apartment in Madrid. The family registered in the Register of Residents, enrolled the child in preschool and also took […]
J.M. v. I.L., 2020 NBCA 14

The father was an American citizen and the mother a Canadian citizen. The child was born in Texas, USA, in September 2017, and has an American and Canadian passport. In February 2018 the parents agreed that the mother could travel to Canada with the child to visit her family. Over the next year the father […]
OLG Thüringen – 1 UF 11 20 – 17 March 2020

In its order dated 9 December 2019 (File No: 47 F 632/19), Jena Local Court ordered the return of the child, who was born in December 2017, to Australia. The child’s mother’s complaint (Beschwerde) appeal against this was rejected by way of a decision issued by Thuringia Higher Regional Court dated 3 March 2020 (File […]
Pohl v Pohl, 2019 ABCA 71

Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The Court of Appeal dismissed the father’s argument that the chambers judge erred by not first determining the child’s habitual residence before applying the 13(1)(b) exception. The Court of Appeal stated that in this instance, the determination of habitual residence would have not affected the outcome of the case: if […]