A v A and another (Children: Habitual Residence) (Reunite International Child Abduction Centre intervening) [2013] UKSC 60 [2013] 3 WLR 761
The proceedings related to four children, born in 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2010. The parents had entered into an arranged marriage in Pakistan in 1999 and the mother came to the United Kingdom in 2000 where the first three children were born. After the birth of the third child, the parents’ marriage ran into difficulties, […]
Anonymous V. Anonymous 7784/12
Parties married in Israel, 1995. In 2002, the family moved to Canada. A son was born in Israel in 1997 and in 2005 twins were born in Canada. The parties divorced in Canada in July 2011. In August, 2011 the Court in British Columbia issued a judgment granting the request of the mother to relocate […]
Anghel v. Italy (Application No. 5968/09)
The proceedings concerned a child born in Romania in March 2003. Following the birth, the mother occasionally worked in Italy for short periods of time. In 2005, after she had obtained a regular job there, the father agreed for the child to travel to Italy with the mother. A formal notarial deed of 26 April […]
CA Paris, 5 juillet 2013, No de RG 13-11740
The case concerned a child born in Portugal in 2006 to Portuguese married parents. In May 2010, a Portuguese court decreed the parents’ divorce and approved their agreement for the settlement of parental responsibilities, whereby the child was entrusted to the care and custody of the mother, with parental responsibility being exercised jointly. On 26 […]
Cass Civ 1?re, 10 juillet 2013, No de RG 13-14562
The case concerned four children born between 2000 and 2005 to married parents. Pursuant to the parents’ divorce in 2007, the family members had remained resident in Belgium and the children under shared custody, spending one week with one parent and the next with the other, and the parents had joint parental authority. In September […]
Headifen v. Harker 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80819 (W.D. Tex., 2013)
The proceedings concerned a child who was born in the United States of America in August 2008 and adopted shortly thereafter. The adoptive parents had married in 2005. The father was a New Zealand national, the mother South African. Both were naturalised citizens of the United States of America. The family moved to New Zealand […]
E.S. s/ Reintegro de hijo
The child was born in 2006 in Amsterdam. His parents had celebrated a Registered Union in 2005 in the Amsterdam Civil Registry, which was dissolved by Court order on 4 April 2007. At the request of the father, a provisional and supervised visitation order was settled by Dutch authorities; the father’s contact was extended by […]
Guzzo v. Cristofano, 719 F.3d 100 (2nd Cir. 2013)
The proceedings concerned a child born in September 2006 to an Italian father and an American mother. The parents had married before the birth, but had maintained their respective residences in Italy and New York. In 2006 and 2007, the parents visited each other on numerous occasions. In December 2007, they agreed that mother and […]
Sofia Povse and Doris Povse v. Austria (Application No 3890/11)
The application related to a child born in December 2006. The parents were not married and lived together in Italy until January 2008. Under Italian law, they shared custody of the child. When the parents separated, the mother took the child from the family home. Although the father obtained an order preventing the mother from […]
G.A.G.R. v. T.D.W., 2013 BCSC 586