Shortridge-Tsuchiya v. Tsuchiya, 2009 BCSC 541, [2009] B.C.W.L.D. 4138

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a boy, was 7 years of age at the time of alleged wrongful removal. He had been born in Japan to his Japanese father and Canadian mother. The child had Canadian and Japanese citizenship and was fluent in English and Japanese. In December 2007 the father told the mother that he would seek […]

CA Chamb?ry, 24 avril 2009, No de RG 09/00305

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The application concerned a child born in New York in 2001. The family had lived in the United States of America until the father took the child to France in February 2006 to undergo surgery. They were supposed to return to the United States of America before 30 March 2006. As the father and child […]

Cour d’appel de Bruxelles, 5 mai 2009, No de r?le : 2008/JR/177

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The Court pointed out that in accordance with the Belgian code of private international law, the Court seised is required to ascertain sua sponte that it has international jurisdiction when it observes an element of diversity in the dispute. It added that the connecting factor selected is that of the […]

2Ob78/09y, Oberster Gerichtshof

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The habitual residence did not depend on the intention to stay permanently at one place but rather on the issue of where the person concerned chose to centre his/her economic and social existence. It is therefore appropriate to look at the practical, factual relationships of the person at his/her place […]

5A_105/2009, II. zivilrechtliche Abteilung, arr?t du TF du 16 avril 2009

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Removal and Retention – Arts 3 and 12 Having observed that the child’s habitual residence was unquestionably in the United States of America, the Federal Tribunal stated that there was no need to determine to what extent the father had ex lege a right protected by the Convention, since the removal’s wrongfulness was due to […]

CA Poitiers, 16 avril 2009, No de RG 09/00356

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The children, two boys, were born in 1995 and 1997. Following the parent’s divorce in 2001, the residence of the children was set with their mother in England. After a visit with their father at his home in France in the context of his access rights, the father failed to bring the children back on […]

Cass Civ 1?re 25 f?vrier 2009, N? de pourvoi 08-18126

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The application was about two children born in South Africa. Following the parents’ divorce, the mother was awarded custody of the children and the father visitation rights. The mother’s right of custody was, however, limited insofar as she was obliged to refer to a court if she wished to migrate. The mother took the children […]

Re F. (A Child) [2009] EWCA Civ 416

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a boy, was aged eight at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. He was born in Poland to Polish parents and had always lived in Poland. The parents divorced in 2006 and thereafter proceedings were commenced in Poland in respect of the child, resulting in an order dated July 2007, granting the […]