5P_65/2002/bnm, II. Zivilabteilung, arr?t du TF du 11 avril 2002

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

L’enfant, un gar?on, ?tait ?g? de pr?s de 4 ans et demi ? la date du d?placement dont le caract?re illicite ?tait all?gu?. Les parents ?taient mari?s. Apr?s avoir v?cu en Afrique du sud, ils s’?taient install?s en Nouvelle-Z?lande fin janvier 2001. Le 27 juillet 2001, la m?re emmena l’enfant en Afrique du Sud, puis […]

Anderson v. Paterson [2002] NZFLR 641

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Rights of Custody – Art. 3 The father argued that he held rights of custody and that the removal breached those rights and was therefore wrongful. For her part the mother contended that the father did not hold any rights of custody. It was the father’s case that he and the mother were living together […]

CA Paris, 7 f?vrier 2002, No de RG 2001/21768

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

R?sidence habituelle – art. 3 Le p?re pr?tendait entre autres que l’enfant avait sa r?sidence habituelle en France. La Cour observa que l’enfant r?sidait ? Pampelune avec sa m?re depuis juillet 2000 et qu’il y ?tait scolaris? jusqu’au 26 octobre 2001 et nota que le p?re contestait avoir donn? son accord pour cette installation en […]

W. and B. v. H. (Child Abduction: Surrogacy) [2002] 1 FLR 1008

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The twin children were born in England to a surrogate mother. At the date of the hearing they were 3 months old and had spent all of their lives in England. The surrogacy agreement was made in California on 12 February 2001 between a married Californian couple and an English woman. It was agreed that […]

Oberlandesgericht Dresden, 10 UF 753/01, 21 January 2002

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was 10 years old at the date of alleged wrongful removal. Prior to the removal she had lived in Florida with her mother. In March 2001 the parents entered into an agreement whereby the mother would have primary care of the child, the father generous visitation rights. In addition both parents […]

Gil v. Rodriguez, 184 F.Supp.2d 1221 (M.D.Fla. 2002)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was nearly 7 years old at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. She had lived in Venezuela all her life. Her parents were not married, but had intermittently lived together with the child. At the date of the child’s removal, the trial court found that they had been living together […]

Tribunal for Children, Rome, 25 January 2002, Case No. 538/02.

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was 13 years old at the date of the application. The father claimed that the child’s mother prevented him from exercising his rights of access. The mother maintained however that the father had ceased coming to Italy to see the girl. This had stemmed from an incident in which the girl […]

B. v. C.

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The case related to a boy who was aged 13 at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. The parents were married. The father, a United Kingdom citizen, adopted the mother’s two children of a previous relationship. The family moved to New Zealand in 1993. In February 1998 the parents separated and the father left […]