Cavani v. Hungary (Application No 5493/13)
Cass Civ 1?re, 19 novembre 2014, N? de pourvoi 14-17.493
L’affaire concernait une enfant n?e en mai 2012 ? Johannesburg de parents mari?s. Les parents se s?par?rent au cours des six mois suivant la naissance de l’enfant. La m?re convint avec le p?re, titulaire du droit de garde, d’un voyage de l’enfant avec la m?re en France, du 25 novembre 2012 au 15 f?vrier 2013.La […]
Hromadka and Hromadkova v. Russia (Application no 22909/10)
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) The Court accepted that the 1980 Hague Convention did not directly apply to the case, because the wrongful removal happened before the Convention entered into force between the Czech Republic and Russia. The Court’s primary duty was to examine the claims against the right to respect for family life, […]
LPQ v LYW [2014] HKCU 2976
The case concerned two children, born in 2008 and 2013 to married parents. The mother held a Chinese mainland passport and was working in Japan. The father held a Hong Kong passport and operated a procurement business, on a part-time basis, between Hong Kong and Japan. In April 2008, the father moved to Japan under […]
Re H (Children) (Jurisdiction: Habitual Residence) [2014] EWCA Civ 1101
The proceedings concerned two children born to married parents of Bangladeshi origin. In May 2008, the parents and their children travelled to Bangladesh when the first child was 14 months old and the second six weeks old. The father returned alone in August 2008. The father made three extensive visits to Bangladesh between 2009 and […]
Sanchez v. R. G. L. ex rel. Hernandez, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 14849 (5th Cir. 2014)
Three children were born and raised in Mexico, and are Mexican citizens. They lived with their mother and her boyfriend. On 9 June 2012, the children’s aunt and uncle brought the children, without their mother’s knowledge or consent, to Texas. After the mother’s several requests for her children’s return, on 18 July 2012, the children’s […]
C. v. M. (C-376/14 PPU)
The proceedings concerned a child born in France on 14 July 2008 to a French father and a British mother. The parents’ marriage broke down shortly after the birth. A divorce was pronounced by the Regional Court (Tribunal de Grande Instance) of Angoul?me (France) on 2 April 2012; parental responsibility was to be exercised jointly […]
S?nchez-Londo?o v. Gonz?lez, 752 F.3d 533 (1st Cir. 2014)
The proceedings concerned a child born in the United States of America in October 2006. The mother, an illegal immigrant from Colombia, and the father, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had married in December 2005. In December 2008, the mother went back to Colombia with the child in an attempt to secure legal status to reside […]
K.T. v. M.B., 2014 QCCS 3144
Blaga v. Romania (Application No 54443/10)
The proceedings related to three children, all of whom had dual American and Romanian citizenship, who were born in March 1998 and October 2000 (twins). The parents, who had married and lived in the United States, also held dual Romanian-U.S. citizenship. On 1 May 2007, the Superior Court of Forsyth County in the United States […]