Friedrich v. Friedrich, 78 F.3d 1060 (6th Cir. 1996)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a boy, was 2 at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. He had spent all of his life in Germany. The parents had very recently separated. On 2 August 1991 the mother took the boy to the United States, her State of origin. On 23 September 1991 the father’s return application was […]

Marshall v. Marshall 1996 SLT 429

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was 13 1/2 at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. She had lived in Ireland all of her life. The parents were separated. The father lived in Scotland and the mother, with whom the girl resided, in Ireland. On 28 April 1995 the girl went to Scotland with the help […]

Cass Civ 1?re, 21 novembre 1995, No de RG 93-20140

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The children were aged 2 and 3 months at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. The parents were married and the family lived in Indianapolis (USA). In 1989, with the agreement of the father, the mother took the children to France. However, they did not return and the mother commenced divorce proceedings in France. […]

R. v. R. (Residence Order: Child Abduction) [1995] Fam 209, [1995] 3 WLR 425

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The hearing related to three children who were aged 11, 7, and 4. They had lived all of their lives in Tenerife before being taken by their mother to England on 21 April 1994. This was prima facie in violation of the father’s right of veto over the removal of the children from the jurisdiction. […]

Cameron v. Cameron 1996 SC 17

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The children of the family involved in the application, both girls, were aged 7 and almost 5, at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. Until December 1994 they had spent all of their lives in Scotland. The parents were married and had joint rights of custody. However, on 21 December 1994 they entered into […]

Szalas v. Szabo, [1995] O.J. No. 3632 (Gen. Div.)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The mother and father, Hungarian nationals, were married in Hungary in 1980. After they separated, the mother, with the consent of the father, took custody of their two children, a girl born in 1981 and a boy born in 1984. The father later remarried and emigrated to Canada in 1990. The two children visited the […]

Re G. (A Minor), 3 October 1995, transcript, Court of Appeal

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The children were 13 and 8 at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. They had lived in both England and the United States. In September 1992 the family moved to the United States. In August 1993, following a vacation in England, the father and children returned to the United States without the mother. Visits […]

Bundesverfassungsgericht, 2 BvR 982/95 and 2 BvR 983/95, 10 October 1995

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was nine months old at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. She was taken by her mother from North Carolina in the United States to Germany on 15 November 1993. The father petitioned for her return under the Convention. The Family Court (Familiengericht) of Schwelm refused to order her return. […]