O. v. O. 2002 SC 430
The children were aged 9 and 7 respectively at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. The parents were married in Ireland in January 1981 and had six children. The application only concerned the youngest two children. The parents separated in March 1999, with the mother leaving the children with the father. On 10 June […]
?.L.K, 5. April 2002, 16. afdeling, B-409-02
The child, a girl, was 7 years old at the time of the alleged wrongful retention. She was born in England in 1994 and lived there until August 2000. The parents married in 1982 but divorced in 1997, when an English court decided that the girl should live with the mother. However, both parents retained […]
P. v. P.
The children, two girls, were aged 7 and almost 3, at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. The children and mother are German nationals. The parents married in June 1991 in Germany. The parties had lived in Australia for a period of time but returned to Germany in September/October 1998. On 17 June 2001, […]
Cass Civ 1?re 19 mars 2002, N? de pourvoi 00-17.692
The child was aged 6 1/2 at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. Until the time of the removal he had been living in Israel. His parents were divorced. On 22 July 1998 the family judge at the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Bordeaux made an order that the child should continue to live […]
Tribunal for Children, Palermo, 28 March 2002, Case No. 8/2002 Civ. Reg. gen. – N. 1596 Reg. Cron.
Rights of Custody – Art. 3 The court ruled that the removal of the child had violated the mother’s exclusive right to decide the chld’s residence, a right which had been recognized by the Court of Heilbronn. Grave Risk – Art. 13(1)(b) The court ruled, on the evidence before it, that the child would not […]
5P_65/2002/bnm, II. Zivilabteilung, arr?t du TF du 11 avril 2002
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 […]
W. and B. v. H. (Child Abduction: Surrogacy) [2002] 1 FLR 1008
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 […]
Re S. (A Child) (Abduction: Grave Risk of Harm) [2002] 3 FCR 43, [2002] EWCA Civ 908
The child, a girl, was 13 months old at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. She was born in Israel and prior to the removal had always lived there. The mother was born in the United Kingdom and had been living in Israel since 1995. The father was born in Australia and moved to […]
Anderson v. Paterson [2002] NZFLR 641
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
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 […]