Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsr??tten), decision of 12 September 2001, Case number 7624-2000
The child, a boy, was 5 years of age at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. He had lived in both Sweden and England. The parents were not married but had joint rights of custody. The child lived in Sweden until April 1999 when his mother unilaterally took him to England. In May 1999 […]
Decision of 12/09/2001, Juvenile Court, Palermo, Case No.81/2001 Civ. Reg. Gen.
The children, a boy born in 1985 and a boy born in 1995, had their habitual residence in Belgium. Under an order made by a Li?ge Court on 13 September 2000 their mother had sole custody. In December 2000, whilst exercising a period of overnight access the father took the boys to Italy. The mother […]
Tribunal for Children, Florence, 29 August 2001, Case No 810/01 C et n. 3690 Cron.
The child, a boy, was 2 _ years old at the time of the alleged wrongful removal. His parents were married but separated. On 5 September 2000, a judge in Kempen, Germany, awarded the mother the right to decide the child’s residence. The child had at that time been living with his mother in Germany. […]
Callaghan v. Thomas [2001] NZFLR 1105
Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The nature of the child’s stay in New Zealand was the subject of dispute. The mother argued that it was to be for a maximum period of 6 ? 12 months on the basis that if he were not able to settle he would be returned immediately. It was the […]
Decision of the Obergericht des Kantons Luzern, 220168, 31/08/2001
The child, a girl, was aged 3 _ and living in Cyprus at the time of the alleged wrongful removal. The parents had divorced in November 2000. One month later, before any custody decision was delivered, the mother and her boyfriend took the child to Switzerland. The father’s return petition was issued at the l’Amtsgericht […]
Bundesgerichtshof, XII. Zivilsenat, XII ZB 99/01, 18 July 2001
L’enfant, un petit gar?on n? en septembre 1998, ?tait ?g? de 2 ans ? la date du non-retour dont le caract?re illicite ?tait all?gu?. Ses parents ?taient mari?s depuis 1997, avaient conjointement la garde de l’enfant et la famille r?sidait en Allemagne. En janvier 2000, les parents se s?par?rent. La m?re canadienne d?cida d’organiser un […]
D. v. D. 2002 SC 33
The case related to a boy aged almost 5 at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. The parents were married and had joint rights of custody. During the course of the marriage the mother had suffered from severe depression and had made several suicide attempts. The child had lived in Scotland, Germany and Switzerland. […]
Fabri v. Pritikin-Fabri, 221 F. Supp. 2d 859 (N.D.III. July 13, 2001)
The child, a girl, was nearly 10 years old at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. She had lived in Italy all of her life. Her parents were separated the mother had primary care, the father frequent access. On 27 September 2000 the mother took the child to Chicago, USA. She left the father […]
(Deleted) Sharif Salah v. Awes, No. F9001664 (Minn. App. Div. 2001)
The child was approximately 3 at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. It was disputed whether the parents were legally married. They stopped cohabiting in 1997. Thereafter the child lived with the mother. In 1999 the mother took the child to the United States. In June 2000 the father applied to the Canadian Central […]
J.S.S. v. P.R.S, [2001] 9 W.W.R. 581 (Sask. Q.B.)
The mother and father, South African nationals, were married in 1993. Their child, a boy, was born in Canada in May 1995. The family returned to South Africa during the summer of 1995 and lived there for a year. In August 1996 they returned to the United States and lived in Pennsylvania. The mother brought […]