[father] tegen [mother] Hof Den Haag 14 februari 2018, ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:296

In the matter of C (Children) [2018] UKSC 8

The mother and father met and married in Australia. The mother was a British national and the father an Australian national. Their two children were born in 2012 and 2014, and during the latter stages of the mother’s maternity leave, the marriage was in difficulties. The father agreed the mother could travel to England with […]
2017 (Ra) No. 525 Appeal case against an order to return the child

The father is a United States national, the mother a Japanese national. They met in Japan while the father was serving for a United States military base and married in Japan in 2012. The couple lived with the mother’s son from her previous marriage in Japan. The father returned to the United States, followed by […]
FE v YE [2017] EWHC 2165 (Fam)

The parents married in June 1993 and have four children. The current application concerns two of the children, twins, aged 7. The family lived in Israel until June 2016, when the mother, the daughter and the twins went on holiday to Thailand. They did not return when booked to do so in July, 2016 and […]
2017 (Ra) No. 742 Appeal case against an order of the return of a child

Grave Risk – Art. 13(1)(b) Firstly, the mother contended that the father was exercising violence, creating a grave risk of harm to her life and body, and may well continue exercising such violence in a way that would expose the daughter to psychological harm by witnessing it (given that the Singaporean personal protection order allegedly […]
Decision of the Federal Supreme Court 5A_666/2017 of 27 September 2017

Shortly after the birth of the child in Switzerland, the unmarried parents moved to Spain, where they lived in a shared household for several years. In 2011, the parents separated and had alternating custody. At the end of January / beginning of February 2016, the mother moved with the child to Switzerland without the father’s […]
Cass Civ 1?re, 14/06/2017, Y c. X, N. 17-10980

B.S.P. v C.M., 2017 SKQB 179

The mother and father never married but lived together for 8 years. The mother has four children, born in 2002, 2009, 2011 and 2014. The father is the biological father of the three youngest. While not biologically related to the eldest child, the father testified that he stood in the place of the child’s father […]
Oberlandesgericht N?rnberg (Nuremberg Higher Regional Court), 7 UF 660/17, 05 July 2017

The Applicant father and the Respondent mother had a daughter together, born on 22 February 2014. They lived together with the child and an older daughter of the mother in France. In June 2018 the mother travelled to Germany and gave birth to another child, whose biological father is the Applicant. The mother returned to […]
Pliego v. Hayes, 843 F.3d 226 (6th Cir. 2016)

The case concerns a child born in 2011 to a Spanish father and an American Mother. The father was working as a diplomat in Turkey at the time of the wrongful removal. In April 2014, the mother traveled to Kentucky, United States with the child and made a unilateral decision not to return. The father […]