Ortiz v. Martinez, 789 F.3d 722 (7th Cir. 2015)
The appellant father and respondent mother lived in Mexico together with their two children, a girl and boy aged seven and 16, respectively, at the time of the proceedings. In August 2011, they all travelled to Chicago. The appellant returned to Mexico, but the respondent and children did not return. The appellant filed an action […]
G.S. v. Georgia (Application No 2361/13)
The child, L, was born in Ukraine on 29 July 2004. The applicant mother was a Ukrainian national and the respondent father a dual Georgian-Ukrainian national. In mid-2005 the father left Ukraine for Russia. The child, L, continued to live with his mother in Ukraine and attended a pre-school educational institution in Kharkiv. The father […]
AR v. RN (Scotland) [2015] UKSC 35
The case concerned two girls born in France in August 2010 and June 2013. The appellant father, a French national, and defendant mother, a British and Canadian national, were not married. The family lived in France until July 2013, when the mother moved to Scotland with the children. Both parties submitted that they had agreed […]
Case no. LB-2015-76479
The case concerned a child born to Polish parents in 2007. Custody was disputed. The mother and the father lived together in Poland from the time the child was born until the autumn of 2009, when the parties split up. Subsequently, the child lived with the mother while the father had access. In 2012, the […]
M v. E [2015] HKCA 252
Adžić v. Croatia (Application No 22643/14)
2015 (Ra) No. 491 Case on Appeal against a return order
Objections of the Child to a Return – Art. 13(2) The father argued that B and D had attained an age and degree of maturity at which it is appropriate to take account of their views, and that they objected to being returned to the state of their habitual residence even though their objections primarily […]
A.L v. J.M., 2015 QCCA 638
Ferrari v. Romania (Application No 1714/10)
Pliego v. Hayes, 86 F.Supp.3d 678 (W.D. Ky. 2015)
The case concerned a child born in March 2011 to a Spanish diplomat father and an American mother. The child was a citizen of Spain and the United States. The parents had been in a relationship for about eight years before marrying in 2009. The child was born in the United States and had spent […]